Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going [Hardcover]

Grounded in an economic perspective, Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going helps college leaders make sense of the challenges they face in securing and managing the resources needed to carry out the community college mission. Finance has perpetually been an Achilles heel for leaders at all levels of management. With the premise that leaders are better at winning battles they know something about, this book equips leaders with an understanding of the fundamentals and the complexities of community college finance. It tackles current and emerging issues with insight that is analytic and prophetica must read for current and prospective leaders.

Richard M. Romano is professor emeritus and director of the Institute for Community College Research, Department of Institutional Research & Planning, SUNY Broome Community College.

James C. Palmer, professor, Department of Educational Administration and Foundations, Illinois State University.

Romano and Palmers work, Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where Were Going&will help emergingleaders to better understand finance issues and will allow them to advance themission of the comprehensive community college. This book provides an excellentopportunity for current graduate students as well as emerging community college leadersto be well-prepared to understand and face the recurring challenges that may causethem to hesitate about accepting senior-level responsibilities. The books subtitle isspot-on: it tells us where we are, where were going, and that promises better preparationfor a future generation of effective community college leaders. Community College Review

Financing Community Colleges is a book that every community college leader, or aspiring leader, should read. Written by two long-time higher education scholars, it is an easily readable nontechnical introduction to issues relating to community college financing. The authors couch their discussion inlÃO