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Essay on Funding of Community Colleges
The community college system is becoming the role model for other systems of governance. Community colleges already have local boards of trustees. In this report we have discusses a bit about history of funding in community colleges in different states. Also highlights State Legislation and Federal policies towards funding in community colleges. It furthers states, The federal government role community colleges funding through mandates and regulations. However, there is no distinction between those requirements that are funded and those that are not funded. Since governmental regulation is increasing and many of the regulations or mandates are not supported with funding.
Community colleges rose into a vacuum, as it were, well ahead of state authorization or planning. Although, over the past 40 years, responsibility for funding and governance has moved in the main to the state level, community colleges still reflect their lower-school roots. The policy of admitting all students who apply, the patterns of funding on the basis of student attendance, the qualifications and working life of the faculty, and the generality of the curriculum all betray their origins. Even where the colleges were organized originally under state legislation, the authorizing acts usually directed the local district to petition for the establishment of a college, and state support typically was provided on an average-daily-attendance or full-time-student-equivalent basis.
The other major form of development, although a distant second in terms of number of institutions, was the two-year college built by the universities. Some were formed as branch campuses and others as colleges within colleges, responsible to the parent university but with their own staff and admissions policies.
Early State Legislation
Prior to mid-century, statewide plans for organizing community colleges were hardly seen and national influence was even less apparent. Even though President Harry Truman’s Commission on Higher Education (President’s Commission on Higher Education.................
