Dateline 2009
III. Resources and Advocacy
To achieve world-class status and meet the stated objectives, additional
resources will be required for the VCCS, including:
- As a system, the VCCS will move to 100 percent of state funding guidelines, including:
- Operating Budgets. Moving from 77% to 100% of operating budget guidelines.
- Faculty Salaries. Moving from the 35th percentile of the VCCS faculty salary benchmark average to the top one-third of the benchmark colleges, or the 66th percentile.
- Full-time Faculty. Moving from a full-time/part-time mix of regular session faculty of 47% full-time faculty to 55% full-time faculty.
- Facilities will be provided to meet one hundred percent (100%) of justified space needs, and seventy-five percent (75%) of VCCS buildings will achieve a “good” or better facilities condition index rating, moving from a current system-wide rating of “poor”.
- Collectively, the VCCS (the System Office and colleges) will obtain $35 million annually in federal dollars, not including Title IV resources, compared to $27.4 million currently collected.
- Collectively, the VCCS foundations will double their holdings, moving from $75 million to $150 million in assets.
- The VCCS will increase advocacy efforts to improve external constituency awareness and support of Dateline 2009 goals and objectives through the following:
- VCCS colleges will have verified home addresses of eighty percent (80%) of alumni since 2003.
- All retired faculty and staff will belong to an active college-based alumni organization that will hold annual events.
- Every member of the Virginia General Assembly will visit or be contacted by a community college at least three times per year to discuss matters relative to the institutional mission and goals of Dateline 2009.
- The Godwin Society will be convened at least once a year.
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