$56,741,000 is available to assist financial-aid departments at California Community Colleges. The money can be used for many areas in the financial-aid department, especially the following: student recruitment, application assistance and waiver fees, promotion of federal financial-aid programs for low-income and disadvantaged students, and providing scholarship assistance for qualified students.
More than half of the students entering community college take remedial or basic skills classes before they meet the criteria to register for college-level courses. Funds to pay faculty to teach basic skills classes have been slashed. CCCs can apply for a portion of the $20,037,000 provided to pay for faculty to teach the necessary basic-skills Math and English courses. These funds pay for basic instruction, support services, counseling, testing and assessment, tutorial, staff development, instructional material, research and more.
CalWORKS helps CCCs provide scholarships and departmental funding to current and prospective students who receive welfare. This money can be used for work-study programs, an onsite childcare facility, curriculum development and instruction as well as job placement and employment-skills training. The State of California has $26,695,000 in funding for students who want to get an education and gain employability skills to transition off of welfare.
$24,907,000 in funds is available to hire or retain part-time faculty. An additional $3,514,000 is to reimburse CCCs for part-time faculty hours. $490,000 in funding provides incentives to CCCs that offer part-time faculty and their dependents health-insurance coverage. Part-time faculty is important because they are more willing to assist students with class work, offset the need for full-time faculty and they teach many of the basic skills and entry-level college courses.
Matriculation funds in the amount of $49,183,000 are set aside to ensure that all CCC students complete their college courses. Services include counseling, student orientation functions, testing and assessment, and any programming that will encourage students to graduate college. $15,290,000 in funds are to support areas of learning in technology training. These funds can also be
used for online instructional classes, faculty and curriculum. $22,929,000 in funding is appointed for Economic and Workforce Development programs. These funds help with vocational instruction, technology and business curriculum development, work programs, business co-operatives and faculty training.