ON-Videoconference Meetings:  September 7 and 21; October 5 and 19; November 2 and 16; December 7

Course Description: CCL 824 is a 3-hour, 3 credit, course utilizing discussion, lecture, reading, case studies, and projects.This course focuses on the concepts and practices in higher education finance with a special emphasis on public community college budgeting and funding. The course is designed to provide prospective higher education administrators with the theoretical knowledge, application techniques, and best practices necessary to effectively manage institutions of higher education.

CCL 824 will be taught as a hybrid course utilizing both television broadcast and Blackboard, alternating weeks using these methods of delivery.

Course Purpose: This course has been designed to provide the necessary financial knowledge and skills for community college administrators to provide executive level leadership for a community college.Leadership is often thought of in such soft terms as values, vision, persuasion, and relationship skills.However, without a strong grounding in budget and finance, which this course will provide, leadership is often ineffective. The learner in this course will come to appreciate money as a powerful tool in education.Students will learn the appropriation processes used by state governments to provide funding for community colleges; how to develop budgets based upon state appropriations, student fees, and other sources of revenue; how to analyze institutional needs and link those needs to the finances of the institution.