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Dates |
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Topics & Activities
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Week 1 8/31/11 |
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Topic: Getting acquainted with the course and with each other. Importance of finance and budgeting
| * Technology Experience Assessment (BB) |
| * Discussion Forums 1, 2, and 3 (BB) |
| * Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Goldstein text | |
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Week 2 9/7/11 |
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Topic: Your institution's approach to budgeting
| * Read Chapters 3 & 4 in Goldstein text |
| * Points to Ponder (BB) |
| * Discussion Forum 4 (BB) |
| * Come to class KNOWING your institution's approach to budgeting | |
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Week 3 9/14/11 |
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Topic: Economic impact of higher education institutions on the region, the state, and the nation
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Week 4 9/21/11 |
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Topic: Responding to extraordinary financial difficulties
| * Read Chapter 5 in Goldstein text |
| * Course research project |
| *Discussion Forum 6 | |
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Week 5 9/28/11
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Topic: Prepping for next week's speaker. Prepare questions for speaker.
| * Read : Rothwell & Gerity text |
| * Read : The 21st century at work: Forces shaping the future workforce and workplace in the United States (BB) |
| * Read: The Workforce Investment Act: Implications for Community Colleges (BB) |
| *Discussion Forum 6 (continued) | |
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Week 6 10/5/11 |
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Topic: Speaker: TBA. Workforce Development and the CC budget. |
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Week 7
10/12/11 |
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Topic: TBD |
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Week 8 10/19/11
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*Topic: Research Project Presentations
* Research Project paper due by NOON TODAY |
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Week 9 10/26/11
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Topic: Reaction to Research Presentations |
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Week 10 11/2/11 |
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Topic: Discussion of Rouche & Jones text
Speaker: Joe Edenfield, PhD (PDCCC) Budgeting and budget management from The Vice President's stand point.
BRING YOUR CC's MISSION STATEMENT TO CLASS.
Speaker: TBA. Technology and the Community College Budget
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Week 11 11/9/11 |
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Topic: Prepping for next week's speaker.
| *Read Grover text |
| *Read: Philanthropic Motivations of Community College Donors (BB) |
| Read: A Donor-Focused Fundraising Model: An Essential Tool in Community College Foundations' Toolkit (BB) |
| * Read: Funding Issues in U.S. Community Colleges: Findings From a 2007 Survey of the National State Directors of Community Colleges (BB) |
| * Read: How Strategic Presidential Leadership and Institutional Culture Influenced Fund-Raising Effectiveness at Spelman College (BB) |
| * Read: Higher education fund raising: What is a President to do? (BB) |
| * Emerging trends & critical issues affecting private fund-raising among community colleges (BB) |
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Week 12 11/16/11 |
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Topic: Speaker: TBA .Fundraising and the CC budget
Discussion of Final Project |
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Week 13 11/23/11 |
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THANKSGIVING BREAK
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Week 14 11/30/11 |
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Topic: Work on Final Project |
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Week 15 12/7/11 |
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Topic: Conclude discussion of Rouche & Jones text .
| * Final Projects due by NOON TODAY | |
| Week 16 12/14/11 |
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| * Reflective journal due by NOON today |
| * rest.....relax...... and await the return of your assignments | |
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The instructor reserves the right to adjust this planner as necessary.
