Community Colleges Struggle When It Comes to Soliciting Private Donations

By ERIN STROUT

As government support lags, 2-year colleges face challenges as they increase development efforts

The words being thrown around are not new in higher education: annual funds, capital campaigns, major gifts, alumni relations. But where those terms are increasingly being tossed about is clearly different: community colleges.

Two-year institutions have become wise to the fact that traditional avenues of financial support, namely government funds, are no longer enough to sustain