This article reviews recent literature on student financial aid as a retention tool at community
colleges. Enrollment and tuition data from the National Center for Education Statistics …

In the decades following World War II, a significant expansion of community colleges
occurred throughout the United States. As the baby boom generation came of age, demand …

Today's community colleges are experiencing tremendous growth at a time when higher
education is experiencing little success in the fierce battle for public funding. Administrators …

Changing state revenues have prompted heightened concern about the immediate short-
and long-term future and stability of state investments in higher education. The 2007 Survey …

This chapter discusses the historic struggle to extend geographic access from before World
War II to the end of the Baby Boom era (1965–1973), when states created/expanded …

This study used the lens of Resource Dependency Theory to examine the mindsets of nine
community college presidents in California as they responded to the decline in state funding …

INTRODUCTION US community colleges are complex organizations that are grounded in a
broad mission that includes transfer preparation, developmental education, vocational …

This study examines patterns of state financing in public community colleges. The focus of
the study is to not only show the disparities that exist across the 50 states in terms of fiscal …

In the early 1990s, Clark Kerr and others predicted “Tidal Wave II”—a bulge of graduates
from America's high schools wanting access to higher education. The bulge was to start …

This paper explores differences in associate's degree production in the STEM-related fields
of engineering, engineering technology, biological/biomedical science …