WNCC 2010 Self-Study Report - Western Nebraska Community ...

Each campus is now equipped with automatic defibrillator units. As a follow-up to the installation of
these units, several training sessions were held to familiarize faculty and staff with proper use of
the devices.
College Emergency Response Team (CERT) training was conducted at HATC in March of 2009 for
those individuals desiring to be better prepared to address emergency situations. These sessions
were attended by fifteen WNCC employees. Another session was offered September of 2009, with
the goal of creating enough of a trained pool of employees to allow for at least one team being
available on all campuses at any given time in order to respond to campus or community
emergencies.
Criterion Core Component 2b: The organization’s resource base supports its
educational programs and its plans for maintaining and strengthening their
quality in the future.
WNCC’s resource base includes financial resources, the WNCC Foundation and the Sidney
Endowment Association, physical plant assets, human resources, the governance structure,
students, and tuition and fees, as well as experience and expertise located in the WCCA Board
and within the community such as business leaders who help with advisory councils. Entities such
as the City of Alliance and the power distribution companies contribute through facilities,
equipment, operating funds, and advice on programming as well. Careful planning and effective
use of these resources is important for the College’s continued future success.
Financial Resources
Being a rural public institution, WNCC faces challenges in maintaining fiscal stability. A
combination of state funding fluctuations, changes in the local economy, the rising costs of
operations, and the variability in student enrollment have all presented budget challenges.
A review of WNCC’s finances indicates that the institution has been able to meet its educational
and service goals with fairly limited resources. In 2007-2008, the College had fund revenues
totaling $20,879,192.00 and student Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) of 1975. The major sources of
revenue are state appropriations, local property-tax levies, and student tuition and fees. WNCC
has a total budget of $22,905,994 projected for the 2009-2010 year, an increase of 5.4%. It also
has a contingency fund of $259,350 and a surplus of $416, 610 (RR 46).
According to information contained in a report released in January of 2009 by the Economic
Modeling Specialist Incorporated group (using data from 2007 as the basis for a report titled The
Socioeconomic Benefits Generated by Western Nebraska Community College), WNCC spent
$12.4 million dollars on salaries and $12.6 million on capital and purchases of supplies and
services. This demonstrates that WNCC invests in people yet also supports them with facilities,
equipment, and supplies. Of that total, nearly 75% of the expenditures are estimated to benefit
local vendors ($18.9 million). The 2009 budget is built with a $612,000 reduction in state aid.
From the same EMSI report, the sources of revenue are distributed as 40.5% state aid, 29.2%
local funding (from the tax levy), 11.3% federal (TRIO and other grants), 10.4% from student tuition
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