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Dissertation
Texas Community College Fundraising Practices for Workforce and Economic Development
2024
Overview
Community colleges are no longer only serving their students through in-class learning opportunities; they have now expanded their activities to help address workforce and economic development issues facing community college graduates. To reduce their dependence on government funding and taxpayers, community colleges need to apply strategic fundraising tactics to help students and their local economies. While community colleges do face barriers at times in their fundraising pursuits, many community colleges have set new goals to enhance student and community success metrics through fundraising strategies. Unquestionably, the state of Texas and its taxpayers must address postsecondary systematic concerns regarding sufficient funding for community colleges; effective fundraising strategies can help with that. This treatise focused on how administrators at two Texas community colleges in Houston and Dallas conducted fundraising activities to expand workforce and economic development opportunities and limit dependence on government funding. Findings illuminate the strategies they undertook, such as private fundraising, partnership building, grant writing and initiative vetting, and how they defined the success of these strategies, which included whether they contributed to completion rates, partner satisfaction, and vested community partners. Findings also illuminate the challenges participants faced, such as loss of funding and staff changes, and the strategies they used to address them, which included focused actions and plans and the reconsideration of future initiatives. These strategies should inform ongoing practice. And as the funding structure for community colleges shifts with the implementation of performance-based funding with House Bill 8, future research should document the consequences for fundraising.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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ISBN
9798310396029
