A great disparity in average state allocations and a wide range of variation in instructional costs per FTE student have existed among Florida's 28 public community colleges. The problem of this study was to identify the effect of unequal state funding on the management and operation of those colleges, and consisted of two major approaches: a macro approach, and a micro approach. / Under the macro approach, Pearson product moment correlation coefficients led to the initial conclusions that cost and funding are near identities, and that the Advanced and Professional program is the most appropriate instructional program to use for analyzing the effect of state funding. / The multiple regression analysis which was used to identify the instructional variables most related to the average direct costs of instruction in the A and P program revealed that only three independent variables--student/faculty ratio, faculty salary, and supplies and equipment and expenditure--have significant statistical relationships with the dependent variable FTE cost (average instructional cost per FTE student). / The micro approach consisted of a pilot study and four case studies that were geared toward answering the question of whether the level of state funding has affected the behavior of the variables that were found to have significant relationships with average cost. / Two initial conclusions were reached: (1) That high levels of supplies and equipment expenditures as well as low levels of student faculty ratio are reflections of the level of each college's commitment to the various discipline categories. (2) Small colleges showed higher levels of instructional costs because they had to offer the same comprehensive programs offered at large colleges despite the adverse effects of low enrollment on average class size. / The overall conclusion of the study was that the state funding process did not affect the behavior of instructional costs in Florida's public community colleges. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: A, page: 2428. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75860 |
| Contributors | ELMOGHAZY, ELSAYED ALY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 214 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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