Welcome to the Community College Now! resource and information center. Community College Now! is a public education program of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation to raise awareness of the need for high quality, affordable community college education in the Treasure Valley.
The Community College Now! resource section provides important information, as well as the opportunity to link to helpful websites and supporting information related to community college accessibility. The following lists of Web resources are not intended to be comprehensive. Inclusion on these lists does not indicate endorsement by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation. If you would like to submit your link for inclusion, please email sworrell@peyron.com. Requests for links are subject to evaluation for relevance, accuracy and timeliness.
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A new series of public education 30-second TV videos and radio messages on the need, value and benefit of a comprehensive community college in the Treasure Valley is underway. The first 30-second spot is completed and features Treasure Valley health and safety professionals. A second in the series features workers and employers from Treasure Valley businesses. Previews of upcoming videos will be on this site as they are completed.
Here are additional videos from our Fall public education program: CCNow1 CCNow2 CCNow3
Thank you for your interest in the Community College Now! education program.
Statistics and Reports
- Community College Facts
According to an examination of the 2002 Census data, the Boise/Nampa area, with a combined regional population of almost 700,000, is the largest metropolitan area in the United States without a community college.
- Community College Service Regions
Cities in 10 Counties of Idaho
Since 1963, the State of Idaho has been organized into 7 community college service regions.
- Community Colleges Interim Committee Overview Presentation
June 19, 2006, State Capitol Boise, prepared by Matt Freeman, Legislative Services Office. Presentation covers: Idaho’s community college structure, funding mechanism, history of appropriations, funding in other states (WY, WA, OR, UT, MT).
- Idaho Community Colleges
Idaho has two community colleges (North Idaho College and College of Southern Idaho) and hasn’t added one since the mid-1960s when Twin Falls and Jerome county voters approved Twin Falls’ College of Southern Idaho. Idaho Community Colleges subsequently have been studied for almost 25 years. The reports from the last 25 years are as follows:
- Higher Education in Idaho: A Plan for the Future (1983).
Recommendations of the Idaho Task Force on Higher Education, November 1983 (known as the IACI Study). Summary of recommendations:
- The role and mission statement of each college and university to be clarified to specify the purpose of each institution and to identify what it can and cannot do.
- A statewide community college system be organized.
- None of the universities serve as a community college.
- New community colleges be created over the next decade or so in Boise/Nampa/Caldwell, Pocatello and Idaho Falls regions.
- Lewis-Clark State College serve as the community college for its region.
- All community colleges governed by locally elected boards, coordinated by the State.
- All postsecondary vocational education preparatory and upgrading/retraining programs be delivered through the community college system, as traditionally funded, and with the State coordinating programs.
- The local support provided each community college be provided by all its community college districts on an equitable basis.
- Junior Colleges In Idaho: A Background Report of Enrollment and Funding Trends.
Prepared by the Legislative Budget Office, December 1985. Summary areas of discussion:
- Overview of junior college operation and governance
- Student enrollment trends in academic programs
- Funding the academic programs
- Funding the vocational programs
- Funding the capital construction
- Options for funding academic programs
- Community Colleges in Idaho: Idaho State Board of Education
Rayburn Barton, Executive Director, (1995). Article examines community college in Idaho from three perspectives:
- Historical development: secular and parochial initiatives
- Contemporary nature: creation of districts, powers of trustees, funding
- Future outlook: funding, defining the role, workforce development, increasing access
- A Study of the Roles and Missions of Idaho Public Institutions of Higher Education.
Submitted to the Idaho State Board of Education, October 6, 1995. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, pages 32-56, III. Community College Mission.
- Community College Development Subcommittee
Senator John Andreason, Subcommittee Chair: November 19, 1997, Idaho State Board of Education. The purpose of the subcommittee, as outlined in the memorandum was to develop a comprehensive community college system in the state of Idaho.
- Office of Governor Dirk Kempthorne, 21st Century Workforce Policy Academy
Karen McGee Workforce Development Council Chair, Final Report, 2004. Three key goals were identified in this report:
- Idaho will have an adaptive workforce development system that responds to the needs of workers and business.
- Idaho’s workforce development, education, and economic development systems will be connected.
- Idaho will support an entrepreneurial workforce.
- Excellence, Access and Affordability: A Vision for the 21st Century Community College System in Idaho, Idaho’s College Initiative.
Office of Governor Dirk Kempthorne, 2005.
- Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce: Support Development of a Comprehensive Community College in Southwest Idaho.
Policy Statement: The Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce supports development of a comprehensive community college at the BSU West Campus in Nampa to serve the professional-technical needs in Southwest Idaho.
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