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As a policy recommendation, CCC administrators are advised to increase
credit enrollment at their respective colleges within the funding growth limits
mandated by the State as outlined in Chapter 2. These limits change on an annual
basis. However, it should be noted that the affect of institutional size on quality of
education and student services was not assessed. Additionally, it is recommended that
this increase in enrollment be serviced by increasing the level of PT instruction instead
of FT instruction, while not violating minimum FT faculty obligation, if any are
mandated by the State. These mandates can include the enforcement of the 75/25 rule
under AB 1725. The additional level of instruction will likely coincide with higher pay
for PT instructors and to a lesser degree for FT instructors. Either the level of pay will
need to be increase in order to attract additional faculty, or the resulting larger faculty
union will be able to command higher pay. Regardless, the coinciding increase in
enrollment will offset these additional pay costs, particularly if the student to faculty
ratio is increased (which was observed within the data). Overall, the result is an
economy of scale effect, and lower instructional costs per FTES.
Object Description
| Title | Finance in the California community college: Comparative analysis and benchmarking of instructional expenditures |
| Author | Karamian, Martin |
| Author email | martinsfsu@netzero.com; karamim@piercecollege.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-17 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Melguizo, Tatiana Vega, William |
| Abstract | The goals of this empirical study of community colleges are to 1) create a benchmark for per student instructional expenditures; and 2) account for variations in instructional expenditures among a peer group of community colleges in Southern California. The peer group sample included 22 single campus community college districts in the Los Angeles area. Using data for three fiscal years a refined mean benchmark value for instructional expenditures of $2,676.71 per full-time equivalent student (FTES) was estimated with a standard deviation of $326.54. Using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, 11 variables were correlated with instructional costs per FTES. The largest and only statistically significant determinant included the number of part-time instructors (-0.424). While other variables were correlated, none were statistically significant at the 95% confidence interval. The results from the sample suggest that larger colleges have lower instructional costs per FTES despite higher faculty pay. Expanding credit student enrollment within the funding growth limits set by the State, along with additional part-time instruction within the limits set by the State will likely result in lower instructional costs per FTES and an economy of scale effect. The effect of increased institutional size on quality of education was not assessed. |
| Keyword | finance; California; community college; comparative analysis; benchmarking; instructional expenditures; economics; higher education; spending; instruction; education; economy of scale |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1990/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3775 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Karamian, Martin |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Karamian-4454 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Karamian-4454.pdf |
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| Title | Page 118 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 110 As a policy recommendation, CCC administrators are advised to increase credit enrollment at their respective colleges within the funding growth limits mandated by the State as outlined in Chapter 2. These limits change on an annual basis. However, it should be noted that the affect of institutional size on quality of education and student services was not assessed. Additionally, it is recommended that this increase in enrollment be serviced by increasing the level of PT instruction instead of FT instruction, while not violating minimum FT faculty obligation, if any are mandated by the State. These mandates can include the enforcement of the 75/25 rule under AB 1725. The additional level of instruction will likely coincide with higher pay for PT instructors and to a lesser degree for FT instructors. Either the level of pay will need to be increase in order to attract additional faculty, or the resulting larger faculty union will be able to command higher pay. Regardless, the coinciding increase in enrollment will offset these additional pay costs, particularly if the student to faculty ratio is increased (which was observed within the data). Overall, the result is an economy of scale effect, and lower instructional costs per FTES. |
