Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges

1. Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges FY 2011 Legislative Recommendations

2. Community and Junior Colleges The critical bridge…. • between high school and the university • between employers and workers • between the low educational attainment level of our citizens and the economic prosperity our state.

3. Northwest Northeast Coahoma Itawamba Mississippi Delta East Mississippi Holmes East Central Meridian Hinds Jones Copiah-Lincoln Southwest Mississippi Gulf Coast Pearl River 15 colleges making higher education accessible and affordable to all.

4. Enrollment • 68 % of all freshmen in public and private institutions of higher learning are enrolled at community and junior colleges. • 51 % of all college undergraduates are enrolled at CJC • 97 % of all CJC credit students are Mississippians

5. Unprecedented Enrollment Gains • Preliminary Fall 2009 • 82,818 credit student • 13 % increase over previous fall • FY 09 Credit and Non-Credit • A quarter-million people served • 11 % of entire state population • 9.5 % increaseover previous year

6. Enrollment • Career and Technical Programs • 19, 242 students in FY 09 • 5,100 CTE graduates with certificate or degree and job-ready skills • Career and Technical programs ARE Workforce Training

7. Mississippi Virtual CC15-College Consortium Increasing Access and Opportunity • Online Enrollment • Fall 2008        20,711 • Fall 2009 25,246 • 22% Increase • Gains are market-driven by learners who want 24/7 access to higher education

8. Average Yearly Tuition and Fees $4,742

9. Adult Basic Education • ABE and GED Preparation Classes • Served 19,242 students in FY 09 GED Testing - Conducted by CJC

10. Workforce Training • Trained 159,922 workers in FY09 • Served 715 Mississippi companies • Conducted 19,095 workforce training classes • Issued 5,317 Career Readiness Certificates

11. Enrollment • Higher Education Comparison

12. State Funding

13. FY 2011 MACJC Legislative Recommendations Endorsed by: • Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges • State Board for Community and Junior Colleges • Mississippi Community and Junior College Trustees Association • Mississippi Community and Junior College Inter-Alumni Association • Mississippi Faculty Association for Community and Junior Colleges

14. TOP THREE FUNDING PRIORITIES

15. MID-LEVEL FUNDING PowerPoint has new layouts that give you more ways to present your words, images and media. • Priority #1 • $64,704,536

16. The Decline of State Funding

17. MID-LEVEL FUNDING • $2,287 – the additional per student state funding needed to achieve Mid-Level Funding

18. MID-POINT SALARIES

19. MID-POINT SALARIES • $4,689 – difference between CJC Average Salary and Mid-Point • 9.75% – difference between CJC Average Salary and Mid-Point

20. Capital Improvements PowerPoint has new layouts that give you more ways to present your words, images and media. • Priority #2 $191,000,000

21. 5-Year MACJC Capital Plan • The CJC are requesting $191 million to support the plan in FY 2010. • $90.5 million to be distributed equally among the 15 institutions • The balance to be distributed based on enrollment

22. Capital Improvements - $10 millionSBCJC Headquarters Building • Request endorsed by MACJC • SB 3083 granted property at University R&D Center to SBCJC • $2 million awarded in FY 2010 for pre-planning • Mississippi has a premier community college system that is recognized as a national model for strategic workforce development, distance learning and academic preparation for university transfer. • Current economy is prime for lower construction costs

23. Dropout Recovery PowerPoint has new layouts that give you more ways to present your words, images and media. • Priority # 3 $13,849,500 3,500* students x $3,957= $13,849,500 *One-fourth of the estimated annual high school dropout population

24. Dropout Recovery – A Second Chance • 400,000 working-age Mississippians without a high school diploma • 14,000 new dropout in Mississippi each year • Mississippi ranks 49th in the nation in the percentage of 18-24 year-olds with a high school diploma

25. Dropout Recovery – Pilot Effort$100,000 special appropriation per college in FY 09 • Fast-Track GED preparation courses • Part-time ABE/GED recruiters • More GED test dates and GED examiners • First college class free for GED achievers • Scholarships for high-scoring GED achievers • GED test fee ($40)waivers • Gas cards to assist with transportation needs • Subject-area CRAM sessions for re-testers

26. State Board for Community and Junior Colleges FY 2011 Request

27. Ways Colleges are Handling 5% Cut in FY 2010 Budgets • Hiring freeze • Delaying equipment and software purchases • Restricting travel, cutting out-of-state travel • Reducing utilities expenditures • 5% across the board cuts • Line item cuts as high as 20% • Reducing institutional scholarships • Deferring maintenance • Evaluating low-enrollment programs and planning for possible elimination of programs

28. Being considered for anticipated FY 2010 budget cuts • Tuition increases • Laying off personnel • Restricting enrollment in high-cost programs • Re-pricing (higher tuition and fees) for high cost programs such as nursing • Further reducing scholarships • Reducing services in programs that do not generate revenue, such as ABE and Workforce Training • Seeking external funding, private and federal, to support institutional goals

29. Community and junior colleges are the fastest growing segment of education. We are the bridge to a better job, a better life.

30. AMERICAN GRADUATION INITIATIVE Community colleges tasked with growing the American Middle Class: • Emphasis on CC’s as Central to Achieving Nation’s Educational and Economic Goals • Each Citizen Should Obtain at Least One Year of Postsecondary Education • America to Regain World Leader Position in Higher Education Attainment by 2020 • CCs to Graduate 5 Million More Students (degrees, certificates) by 2020

31. Our people are of value. Our efforts embody the valuesof the state. We are the best educational value in Mississippi.