Edgecombe Community College has a unique organizational and funding structure due to its rural location and two locations. Edgecombe receives 16.7 million in net allocations from the state. Curriculum funding totals nearly 8 million, while continuing education is nearly 1 million and basic skills is 800,000. Institutional support makes up 6 million of the total budget. The performance-based allocation is surprisingly only .008 % of the net total. Much of the performance funding comes from the success of its development English program; ECC recieved zero quality funding in developmental math and zero quality funding in first year progression. Additionally, its licensure passing rates account for the greatest portion of performance-based funding.
Faculty salaries at ECC put them at the top of a normal bell curve at a ranking of 28 out of the 58 colleges; average salary of the 75 full-time faculty is $47,264. Salaries had been stagnant since 2009, but 2015 marked the first year faculty received a raise since then. ECC has a 15:1 student to staff ratio when the 118 staff and the 75 faculty are combined. At 63%, a master's degree is the most common education level, with bachelor's following at 20% and associate's and special certifications at 13%.
ECC's handbook has a blank page where an organizational chart should be; this may reflect the various changes in administration over the last few years. Just recently, Rice and O'Keefe (2014) noted the exodus of many community college leaders of the baby-boomer generation due to retirement. It will be imperative for ECC to mold its faculty and staff to fill these important positions sooner rather than later.
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