Smaller community colleges tended to have larger adequacy gaps, with colleges under 4,001 students spending $1,871 (17 percent) below projected adequate cost¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Colleges with fewer than 4,001 students showed a 17 percent adequacy gap versus 14 percent for midsize and 6 percent for large colleges. → Levin 2022

Evidence¶

Levin 2022¶

Levin, J., Baker, B., Lee, J., Atchison, D., & Kelchen, R. (2022). An Examination of the Costs of Texas Community Colleges. Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs

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Descriptive 2019/20 comparison of actual spending and projected adequate cost across three enrollment categories (figure 3), using student-weighted averages. Large colleges (over 30,000) had the smallest gap at $612 (6 percent).

"Colleges with fewer than 4,001 students spent $11,196 per full -time equivalent student, whereas the funding level necessary to achieve adequate outcomes was $13,067 (a difference of $1,871 or 17 percent)"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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