RALEIGH: Raising faculty salaries, increasing summer term funding and improving instruction resources are among the main items in the new community college budget. The State Board of Community Colleges is scheduled to vote on the 2001-2003 Expansion Budget Request for the North Carolina Community College System at its next meeting on September 15 at 9:00 a.m. in the State Board Room in the Caswell Building at 200 West Jones Street in Raleigh.

"This budget represents the real needs of the North Carolina Community College System as we endeavor to meet the educational expectations of our students and the economic development support needs and workforce training demands of our state," said NCCCS President H. Martin Lancaster.

If approved by the State Board, the budget will be presented during the next session of the North Carolina General Assembly. It represents an increase of 21.6% in operating funds for Fiscal Year 2001-02 and a 24.3% increase for Fiscal Year 2002-03. The current budget for the NCCCS is $782,044,203. The new budget is set at $951,147.649 and $972,288,383 for the first and second year of the biennium respectively.

Highlights of the budget include $51.7 million in 2001-02 and $72.9 million in 2002-03 to serve the instructional needs of adult learners through a combination of regular term instruction, enhanced summer term offerings and distance education. This amount also includes money to deal with anticipated enrollment growth. The NCCCS has worked to bring the funding for Occupational Continuing Education, which provides short courses for worker training and retraining, on a par with Curriculum instruction, which includes technical and academic courses for credit leading to degrees, certificates and diplomas. This budget includes $12.1 million to complete the incremental parity funding.

"We have put forth a determined effort to improve the salary status for our faculty and this budget helps get us closer to the Southern Regional average," said Kennon Briggs, NCCCS Vice President for Business and Finance.

The budget includes $57.5 million to increase faculty salaries, $9.9 million for staff to handle the growing demands for financial aid, career counseling and other student services, and close to a million dollars for curriculum and professional development to strengthen programs, faculty and staff. The ultimate goal of this category is to improve the campus learning environment for students and instructors.

"We are very grateful to the North Carolina General Assembly for the strong support it has given community colleges, especially in the last biennium," said Lancaster. "We hope our lawmakers will continue to provide the strong financial base our community colleges need to continue to provide exemplary educational and training services to its students."

The North Carolina Community College System, with 759,000 students, is the third largest system in the United States. The System is the state's primary agency for delivery of job training, literacy and adult education programs.

The full agenda for the State Board is attached.

Lunch - Issues Session     12:00 p.m.          Board Room

Finance and Capital Needs 1:30 p.m.         Room 201

Policy                           1:30 p.m.         President's Conference Room

Program Services             1:30 p.m.         Room 467

Legislative                       1:30 p.m.         Room 301-B

Personnel                      3:30 p.m.        President's Conference Room

Chairman's Agenda Review 4:00 p.m.         President's Conference Room

9:00 a.m. - Call to Order

- Approval of Minutes of August 18, 2000, Meeting

- Approval of Agenda

- Approval of Consent Agenda

- NCACCP Report

- NCACCT Report

(Consent Agenda items are listed on the Consent Agenda

and are designated by [CA] on Full Agenda)

- Standing Committee Reports

Policy Committee, Meigs C. Golden, Chair

For Information

§ Report on Performance Measures (Attachment Pol. 1)

For Future Action

§ Proposed Community College System Calendar (Attachment Pol. 2)

§ Intellectual Property Policy for the Virtual Learning Community

(Attachment Pol. 3)

For Action

§ Approval of Proprietary Trade School (Attachment Pol. 4) [CA]

§ Off-Campus Center Request from Pamlico Community College

(Attachment Pol. 5) [CA]

Program Services Committee, R.Carolyn Harmon, Chair

For Information

§ Use of State Leadership Funds from the Carl Perkins Act of 1998

(Attachment Prog. 1)

§ In-Plant Courses Approved April-June 2000 (Attachment Prog. 2)

§ New and Expanding Industry Training Program Trends and Statistics

(Attachment Prog. 3)

For Future Action

§ New and Expanding Industry Training Annual Report (Attachment Prog. 4)*

§ Virtual Learning Community Centers (Attachment Prog. 5)

§ Curriculum Program Applications (Attachment Prog. 6)

§ Curriculum Standard Revision (Attachment Prog. 7)

For Action

§ Additions to Continuing Education Master Course List

(Attachment Prog. 8) [CA]

§ Curriculum Program Applications (Attachment Prog. 9) [CA]

§ Curriculum Standard Revision (Attachment Prog. 10) [CA]

§ 2000-2001 Contract Approval (Attachment Prog. 11) [CA]

§ Instruction to Captive/Co-opted Groups (Attachment Prog. 12) [CA]

* Staff will request moving to "For Action" section of Agenda.

Finance and Capital Needs Committee, James J. Woody, Jr., Chair

For Information

§ Bond Status Report (Attachment FC-1)

§ Capital Funds Expended or Obligated (Attachment FC-2)

§ Project Status Report as of September 15, 2000 (Attachment FC-3)

§ Bond Matching Requirements (Attachment FC-4)

§ Receipts Update (Attachment FC-5)

§ Faculty and Staff Salary Increase Survey Results (Attachment FC-6)

For Action

§ Budget Allocations for 2-1 Summary - FY 2000-01

(Attachment FC-7) [CA]

§ 2001-2003 Expansion Budget (Attachment FC-8)

Contract for Technical Support for Virtual Learning Community

(Attachment 9)

§ English Literacy/Civics Amendment (Attachment FC-10)

§ Construction/Property (Attachment FC-11) [CA]

Legislative Committee, Tom King, Chair

Personnel Committee, Sandra Hayes, Chair

President's Report

- Chairman's Remarks/Discussion

- Board Calendar

- Dates of Next Meetings

Board Retreat - October 18-20, 2000

Sea Trail Resort, Sunset Beach, NC

Policy Committee, Meigs C. Golden, Chair

For Action

§ Approval of Proprietary Trade School (Attachment Pol. 4)

§ Off-Campus Center Request from Pamlico Community College (Attachment Pol. 5)

Program Services Committee, R. Carolyn Harmon, Chair

For Action

§ Additions to Continuing Education Master Course List (Attachment Prog. 8) [CA]

§ Curriculum Program Applications (Attachment Prog. 9) [CA]

§ Curriculum Standard Revision (Attachment Prog. 10) [CA]

§ 2000-2001 Contract Approval (Attachment Prog. 11) [CA]

§ Instruction to Captive/Co-opted Groups (Attachment Prog. 12) [CA]

Finance and Capital Needs Committee, James J. Woody, Jr., Chair

For Action

§ Budget Allocations for 2-1 Summary - FY 2000-01 (Attachment FC-7) [CA]

§ Construction/Property (Attachment FC- 11) [CA]

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