Alternative Funding
Community colleges often face a difficult reality in their pursuit of workforce development funding. Program proposals that align well with regional economic needs and enjoy broad internal consensus may still fail to attract grant support. The root cause of this rejection often is not the quality of the proposed programs, but the fragmentation of the evidence required to justify them. Institutional research (IR) and institutional effectiveness (IE) units are custodians of the exact data funders seek—enrollment trajectories, credential attainment metrics, and regional hiring forecasts. The...
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March
2006
Almost heaven. At least, that's what folks attending the annual Virginia Mountain Music Festival near Richlands, Virginia, are inclined to think. The festival, a 30-year-old tradition, is held on the campus of Southwest Virginia Community College, nestled at the foot of the Clinch Mountains on 185 acres of hills and rolling valleys.
It's all part of the college's commitment to the community aspect of community college. "This event is our gift to the deserving people of our service area" is how Charles King puts it. President since Southwest's establishment in 1967, King sees to it that the...
