Community College Finance : A Guide for Institutional Leaders.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Part 1 Sources of Revenue -- Chapter 1 Factors Influencing Community College Finance -- The Public Community College Movement -- Community Colleges and Unemployment -- The Origin of Public Resources -- Competition for Public Resources -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 2 The Shifting Balance of Revenue -- Balancing Interests -- Harmonizing Financing Policy Actions -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 3 Institutional Support -- Community College Revenues -- Trends in Revenue -- Types of Revenue -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 4 Tuition and Fees and the Cost of Attendance -- Tuition -- Trends in Tuition and Fee Prices -- Cost of Attendance -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 5 Student Financial Aid -- Higher Education Act and the Federal Role -- Applying for Federal Aid -- The Pell Grant Program -- The Federal Student Loans Programs and Student Borrowing -- Campus-Based Student Aid Programs -- Federal Tax Incentives for Higher Education Attendance -- Veterans' Benefits -- State Student Financial Assistance -- Institutional Aid -- Federal Student Aid, Institutional Policy, and Administrative Costs -- Conclusions -- Questions -- Chapter 6 Infrastructure and Funding Issues -- The Concern for Educational Facilities -- Problems with Community College and Higher Education Facilities -- Funding Facility Needs -- What Is Coming in College Construction? -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Part 2 Expending Fiscal Resources -- Chapter 7 Institutional Expenditures -- Community College Expenditures -- Expenditure Trends -- Budgeting -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 8 Aligning Mission and Money -- Community College Completion -- Measuring the Mission -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 9 Costs, Efficiency, and Productivity.

Institutional Costs -- Efficiency and Productivity -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 10 College as an Investment -- The Purpose of College -- Students: Consumers or Investments? -- Return on Investment -- Strategic Investments -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Part 3 Leadership Resources -- Chapter 11 Funding Formulas -- Enrollment-Based Funding Formulas -- Performance-Based Funding Formulas -- Toward a Typology of Performance Funding Formulas -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 12 Setting Prices -- Tuition-Setting Authority -- Tuition Pricing Models -- Student Price Response -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 13 Managing a Fiscal Crisis -- Governmental Responses -- Institutional Responses -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 14 Tenets of Advocacy -- Generating Allies -- Advocacy at Different Levels of Government -- Further Dimensions of Advocacy: Rewards and Risks -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Chapter 15 Future Forces in Community College Finance -- Federal Support -- Practices and Innovations -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Appendix: Principles of Taxation -- References -- Index -- More from Wiley -- EULA.

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