October 27, 2006

At a Growing Number of Community Colleges, Fund Raising Is No Longer Optional

By BEN GOSE

After serving as an administrator at a public university and a private liberal-arts college, Robert C. Keys moved to community colleges in the 1970s and never looked back. He liked the simple focus on education, and was glad to leave dormitories and fund raising behind.

Or so he thought.

Mr. Keys has now been a community-college president for 18 years, the last 10 at Rockingham Community College, in North Carolina. He has managed to avoid teenage antics in residence halls, since

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