Supporting Job Growth through Educational Access and Opportunity 20082009 Consensus Expansion Budget

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Supporting Job Growth through Educational Access
and Opportunity 2008-2009 Consensus Expansion
Budget Request
The North Carolina Community College
System www.nccommunitycolleges.edu
919-807-7100
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North Carolina Community College System

• 58 community colleges serving all 100 counties
• More than 800,000 enrollments
• North Carolinas most important resource for
  economic transformation and recovery

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Supporting Job Growth through Educational Access
and Opportunity

• Major Budget Items
• Workforce Development
• Technology
• Continuing Operations

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Workforce DevelopmentExpanding Allied Health
Programs

• Allied Health NCs number one workforce
  challenge and opportunity
• NC Community College System Allied Health FTE
  almost 21,000.
• Health careers most likely to propel an
  individuals with associates' degrees into middle
  class. USDOL BLS
• 10 largest employment-gaining industries
  projected between 2002 and 2012, three are in
  health care hospitals, ambulatory health care
  services, and nursing and residential care
  facilities. Pappas Report HB1264

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Workforce DevelopmentExpanding Allied Health
Programs

• About nursing
• NC needs 24,000 new RNs within 10 years -- 3.5
  of states net new jobs NC DOC
• 1 of every 2 NC nurses educated in-state.
• 65 of nurses educated in NC are from ADN
  programs.

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Workforce DevelopmentExpanding Allied Health
Programs

• More about nursing
• For every 100 NC ADN grads, 91 are working as
  nurses in NC within one year.
• ADN grads reflect communities they come from and
  are more likely to work in
• Rural areas
• Long-term care, home health and hospice
• Primary care, including general practice, ob-gyn,
  pediatrics

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Workforce DevelopmentExpanding Allied Health
Programs

• In 2004, NC nursing programs wait-listed or
  turned away 7,000 students due to limited
  capacity.

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Workforce DevelopmentExpanding Allied Health
Programs

• 6,000,0000
• Weighted Funding (Allied Health programs cost on
  average 47 more than per student
  funding)(5,600,000)
• National League of Nursing Accreditation -- MSN
  and Costs (400,000)

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Workforce Development Reenergizing Technical
Education

• Keep technical education focus strong in NC.
• NC ranks 5th nationally in number of vocational
  and technical associate degree graduates produced
  each year.
• Ability to maintain programs is slipping with the
  combination of rising costs and declining
  enrollments.
• Since 2002, 98 technical programs have been
  eliminated in North Carolinas 58 community
  colleges with only 9 created.

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Workforce Development Re-energizing Technical
Education

• 4,011,949
• Weighted Funding to support higher instructional
  costs with smaller class sizes (1,361,152)
• Recruitment/Marketing/Advertising (325,000)
• Curriculum Improvement Projects (300,000)
• New Program Start-ups (300,000)
• Technical Equipment (1,725,797)

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Workforce DevelopmentMentoring for Marketable
Skills

• Minority Male Mentoring (475,000)
• Sustain 15 existing programs to develop and
  enhance marketable skills in under-represented
  populations
• Why?
• African-American males 16 of NC K-12 public
  school students
• African-American men 8 of NC Community
  College System's for-credit headcount (06-07).
• African-American men 55 of NC's total prison
  population (06-07).

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Workforce DevelopmentEnhancing Program
Completion

• Counselors and student support - One position
  per campus (3,797,493)
• Support career and academic guidance for
  fast-growing, high-need student body and foster
  greater first-year student engagement
• Why?
• NC Community Colleges need to produce 19,000 more
  program completers per year to meet looming baby
  boom retirements.
• Many students do not return after their first
  year -- greater out-of-classroom engagement is
  needed
• Career, financial and academic guidance critical
  to achieving workforce goals.

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Technology

• Equipment Replacement 11,214,798
• Replaces 10 million in non-recurring funds
  appropriated in 2007 and funds technology for
  additional 6,500FTE
• Essential to providing training on technology
  similar to todays workplaces
• For the past decade, 35 of community college
  technology funding has been non-recurring

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2002-2009 Enrollment Increases in NC Community
College SystemFull-Time Equivalent Students (FTE)
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Continuing Operations

• Enrollment Growth Adjustments 29,885,826
• Support additional 6,455 FTE (23,779,955)
• Replenish Enrollment Reserve for unbudgeted
  growth in excess of 5 (6,105,871)
• Community college enrollments spike during
  recessionary periods as CCs provide for many an
  economic life-line.
• College Faculty/Staff Salary Increases
  47,791,092
• Reduce gap between NC and national peer averages
  for faculty, professional and support staff.
• North Carolina Community College faculty and
  staff currently rank 41st nationally in average
  pay.

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Supporting Job Growth through Educational Access
and Opportunity 2008-2009 Consensus Expansion
Budget Request
The North Carolina Community College
System www.nccommunitycolleges.edu
919-807-7100