American community colleges represent a true success story. With their multiple missions, they have provided access and opportunity to millions of students. But community colleges are held accountable for their services and must be able to show that they are indeed serving their variety of students appropriately.

This volume speaks of the multiplicity of data required to tell the community college story. The authors explore and detail how various sources--workforce data, market data, state-level data, federal data, and, of course, institutional data such as transcript files--all...

Take an in depth look at the current key issues and practices in budgets and finance for community colleges. In this volume, topics include:

• the contemporary challenge of meeting growing demands for increased student persistence and success,
• diminishing state support for higher education,
• new calls for accountability and ways to measure institutionaleffectiveness,
• the increasing reliance of many community colleges on grants and other sources of revenue, and
• college policies that have significant financial ramifications.