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Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?. Bill Holda President, Kilgore College Chair, Texas Association of Community Colleges Don Hudson Vice President, Texas Association of Community Colleges. Texas Association of Community College Business Officers 2012 Annual Conference Horseshoe Bay, Texas

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Where do we go from here?

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  1. Where do we go from here? Bill Holda President, Kilgore College Chair, Texas Association of Community Colleges Don Hudson Vice President, Texas Association of Community Colleges Texas Association of Community College Business Officers 2012 Annual Conference Horseshoe Bay, Texas June 21, 2012

  2. Challenges ahead

  3. All Funds Expenditures 2010-2011: $187.5 billion 2012-13: $173.4 billion

  4. Expenditures (in billions)

  5. A Growing State • Texas has added 4.35 million new people since 2000 • An increase of 20.6% (from 20.8 million to 25.15 million) • The largest numeric increase of any state • Majority of growth came from Hispanic increases • In 2000, those 25 and under: 42.8% Anglo / 40.4% Hispanic • In 2010, those 25 and under: 35.2% Anglo / 46.8% Hispanic • In 2040, those 25 and under: 19.4% Anglo / 67.1% Hispanic

  6. Economic Indicators are Mostly Positive • 6.9% - Latest Texas unemployment rate • Peaked in the Fall of 2010 at 8.3% • 10.76 million – Non-farm employment • Up from a low of of 10.21 million in the Fall of 2009 • Texas Leading Index up 21% since low point in 03/2009 (Texas value of the dollar, U.S. leading index, real oil price, well permits, initial claims for unemployment insurance, Texas stock index, help-wanted index and average weekly hours worked in manufacturing) • Mortgage foreclosures down 40% from one year ago • Consumer Confidence Index is up 17.3% from one year ago

  7. Recession

  8. Three major challenges for budget writers Limits to constructing future Texas budgets

  9. Structural Deficit (in billions)

  10. Public Education • Per student funding has declined significantly • Texas spends $8,908 per student in the current school year. • This is a decline of $538 from the 2010-11 school year • Current national average $11,463per student • Continued enrollment increases driving costs • Lawsuits • Property Tax: All five argue that local boards have no choice but to raise taxes • Adequacy: First four argue that the funding provided by the Legislature does not adequately fund public education in Texas. • Efficiency: TREE group argues that current system is rife with bureaucratic waste.

  11. Medicaid • $23.3 billion - What Texas spent in all funds on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in FY 2009 • 95% of this amount was spent on Medicaid • $7.6 billion was state revenue • 3.4 million – The current number of Medicaid caseloads • 6.2 million - The number that Healthcare Reform will add to Medicaid by 2020 (Texas Comptroller) • 78% - The amount Medicaid enrollments grew from FY1999 to FY2009 • Medicaid populationmostly “Non-disabled children” • 53% of all beneficiaries • But only 29% of all Medicaid spending

  12. PUBLIC POLICY challenges for COMMUNITY COLLEGES The Call of the Student Success Agenda

  13. Pressure to Improve Results

  14. Pressure to Improve Results

  15. Pressure to Improve Results

  16. Taking ownership of the success movement The TACC Student Success Agenda

  17. Factors Leading to Potential Solutions

  18. TACC Student Success Center:Leadership Team Engagement Model

  19. Changing the legislative conversation A new partnership for Student Success

  20. TACC Student Success Movement

  21. Where have we been with funding? • 1942-63: Sufficient to Supplement • $50 (1942) to $250 (1963) per FTSE • Funding for Fall only • Funds only for academic/transfer; no technical-vocational • Total # in 1963: 30 college districts • 1964-73: Community College Expansion • Still funded on FTSE basis, but grew from $250 to $625 • 14 new colleges; 44 college districts in 1973 • Funds for technical-vocational added • Contingency Funds for enrollment growth during biennium • 1974-2012: Community College Formula System

  22. Contact Hour Funding • 1974-84: The Formula as the Basis for Community College Funding • 1985-2003: Instructional Appropriation Distributed by the Formula • 2004-2012: Sufficient to Supplement II

  23. New funding model – 83rd Legislature • Other Issues: • Quality Employee Benefits: Group Health Insurance, Retirement • Base Year: Biennium, not annual with reallocation • Student Success Policies: Transfer, Pathways, Financial Aid, Workforce

  24. Straw Poll Results (preliminary) *3 college districts indicated TBA on property tax question Source: TACC Survey, 41 colleges reporting

  25. New Directions - TACC

  26. State of TACC • TACC is changing and taking more responsibility for the success agenda. This change will require some short term investments to create a new structure for long-term success. • Public Relations Campaign • New Mathways Project • Cooperative Purchasing Network • Expanded role with Trustees • Changing college culture and conversation beyond a series of initiatives to a full-scale movement.

  27. Questions? View from the Bench

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