Can Community Colleges Continue to Do More with Less?

Autor/inn/en	Jenkins, Davis; Belfield, Clive
Titel	Can Community Colleges Continue to Do More with Less?
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 46 (2014) 3, S.6-13 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
DOI	10.1080/00091383.2014.905417
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Budgeting; Costs; Tuition; Public Policy; Public Colleges; Educational Quality; Expenditures; Online Courses; Fees; Educational Improvement; Income; Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Cost; Kosten; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Öffentliche Ordnung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausgaben; Online course; Online-Kurs; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Einkommen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	The authors of this article describe the effect that cost-cutting policies have had on community college student outcomes and how this has weakened the capacity of those colleges to produce returns to students and taxpayers. Many colleges are instituting reforms to help more students graduate with useful credentials. While these lower the cost per completion (and thus increase college efficiency), they increase expenditures per student. The emphasis of policy and practice moving forward should be on improving efficiency: the cost per completion of a high quality credential. The quality of that credential can be monitored in part by tracking graduates' employment, income and further education. Such monitoring, however, should not be used to rank colleges, which operate under differing local circumstances. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10