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Productivity and equity of private fundraising among public community colleges: Does local financing have a social capital effect?

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Productivity and equity of private fundraising among public community colleges: Does local financing have a social capital effect?/
Author:	Grant, John L.
Description:	264 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0093.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-01A.
Subject:	Education, Community College. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3391823
ISBN:	9781109570670

Productivity and equity of private fundraising among public community colleges: Does local financing have a social capital effect?
Grant, John L.

Productivity and equity of private fundraising among public community colleges: Does local financing have a social capital effect? - 264 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0093.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Massachusetts Boston, 2009.

All states provide their comprehensive public community colleges with annual appropriations for operating costs. In about half the states, local government also provides annual operating support. Like all of public higher education, these colleges face declining state and local support and are under severe financial pressure. Therefore, most have established foundations to conduct private fundraising. Informed by social capital theory (Putnam, 2000), I hypothesized financial support by local government as a form of social capital with a positive influence on fundraising. To test this hypothesis, I combined and analyzed college data from the online Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System within the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, and foundation data from GuideStarRTM, an online repository of information reported annually to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service by all tax-exempt organizations. Dependent variables were total dollar contributions and total dollar contributions adjusted for enrollment, representing the fundraising outcomes of productivity (technical efficiency) and distributive equity. Independent variables were college and foundation reputations (ages as proxy), college institutional support expenses and size (annual FTE enrollment as proxy), foundation fundraising expenses and board size, local and state appropriations, local and state grants/contracts, community wealth (Pell dollars per student as proxy), two categories of college governance, and four of urbanicity. The FY2006 sample of 332 colleges and their foundations represented 37 states and a target population of 603 colleges. Regression coefficient t-values showed foundation expenses and reputation, size of board, town locale, and community wealth were significant predictors of productivity. State appropriations fell just short. Foundation expenses and reputation, board size, community wealth, suburban locale, and size were significant predictors of distributive equity. I found no evidence that local funding has a social capital effect on fundraising outcomes. However, colleges in wealthy communities with older, well-funded foundations led by large boards have an advantage in fundraising. Colleges in poorer communities with small foundation boards are disadvantaged. These findings are important to the problem of financing comprehensive public community colleges. Policy makers need to be aware the fundraising arena is not level.

ISBN: 9781109570670Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018008
Education, Community College.

Productivity and equity of private fundraising among public community colleges: Does local financing have a social capital effect?
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