City Colleges receives restricted operating grants for specified purposes from federal, state, local, and private agencies. These grants are accounted for in the Restricted Purposes Fund. The ICCB distributes many of these grants.
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accounted for separately, and care must be taken to establish each group of self-balancing accounts so that the accounting and reporting requirements for the grants are met.
In FY2015, City Colleges anticipates receiving a total of $200.2 million in restricted grants from all sources. This amount is broken down as follows: $153.2 million for student financial aid and $24.8 million in funded grants, including $20.3 million in federal and state grants and $4.5 million in local and non-governmental sources. In addition, City Colleges has included $22.2 million in proposals which have been submitted for FY2014 with results still pending.
The federal government awards student financial aid for tuition and fees primarily through the following grants: PELL, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), and Work Study. City Colleges expects to process a total of $111.2 million of federal aid awards in FY2015; with $107.1 million coming from PELL grants, $1.9 million from SEOG, and $2.2 million from Work Study grants. City Colleges is projected to disburse another $32.3 million in subsidized and unsubsidized title IV federal student loans.
The State government awards City Colleges $9.7 million in financial aid through the IMAP. This funding is awarded to eligible students to help cover tuition and fees.
The following is a brief description of major restricted grants from state and federal agencies. Many of these may be at risk, pending state funding decisions on the FY2015 budget and the results of federal actions with respect to sequestration.
Adult Education – State Basic: This grant from the state helps establish special classes for the instruction of persons age
21 and over or persons under the age of 21 and not otherwise in attendance in a public school. The instruction is necessary to increase qualifications for employment or other means of self-support and to meet the responsibilities of citizenship. This includes courses of instruction regularly accepted for graduation from elementary or high school and for Americanization and General Education Development (GED) Review classes. Included in this grant are funds for support services, such as student transportation and child care. City Colleges expects to receive $1.8 million in FY2015.
Adult Education – State Performance: This grant is awarded based on performance outcomes using three factors: (1)
secondary completions–high school and GED completions, (2) level gains–test level gains, as well as citizenship and vocational gains, and (3) test point gains–from the TABE, CELSA, BEST, and BEST+ tests. Previous to the changes recommended by the Adult Education Funding Study Task Force, public aid reductions and persistence (which is related to attendance) were also included. Only the performance outcomes of students who are supported with grant funds are used in the calculation: performance outcomes of students who are supported with State credit hour reimbursements (included in the ICCB unrestricted base operating grant) are not. City Colleges expects funding of $1.0 million for FY2015.
Adult Education – State Public Assistance: Public Assistance funds are used to provide services for Temporary
Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) recipients and persons who have been cancelled from TANF and receive extended medical assistance. This grant provides support to Adult Education and Family Literacy providers for instruction, fees, books, and materials used in the program for these students. Priority for services must be given to educationally disadvantaged students with basic literacy skills from beginning literacy through low intermediate ABE/ESL and to recipients of TANF. Other eligible persons are those who receive TANF Medical Assistance No Grant (MANG)/Kid Care Assist, non-assistance food stamps, and non-custodial parents who are referred by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, or by the court system. City Colleges anticipates receiving $1.5 million in FY2015.
Adult Education – Federal Basic: This grant provides funds for Adult Education and Family Literacy providers to assist
adults in becoming literate and obtaining the knowledge and skills necessary for employment and self-sufficiency; to assist adults who are parents in obtaining the educational skills necessary to become full partners in the educational development of their children; and to assist adults in completing a secondary school education. City Colleges expects to receive funding of $1.6 million in FY2015.
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Highway Construction Careers Training Program – Federal: City Colleges has received $0.5 million from the ICCB
in FY2014 to establish a Highway Construction Careers Training Program through Wilbur Wright and Kennedy-King Colleges. Each community college holds 8-week sessions in which minorities, women and disadvantaged individuals receive intense training in highway construction related-skills, e.g., math for trades, job readiness, technical skills coursework (carpentry, concrete flatwork, blueprint reading, site plans, site work, tools use, etc.) and OSHA 10 certification. City Colleges is anticipating an award of $0.6 million from ICCB in FY2015, which is a 25% increase in funding from FY2014.
Perkins Post-Secondary – Federal: Signed into law on October 31, 1998, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical
Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III) sets out a new vision of vocational and technical education for the 21st century. The primary goals of this vision are improving student achievement and preparing students for postsecondary education, further learning, and careers. City Colleges is anticipating an award of $3.0 million from the Perkins Act in FY2015, which is a 2% decrease in funding from FY2014.
Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Program Formula Grant – Federal: Kennedy-King, Malcolm X, and Olive-
Harvey Colleges receive funding from the Department of Education (DOE) to provide targeted students with academic support and skill development services. The services will ensure students succeed in the basic college requirements, graduate and have the potential to matriculate at a four-year institution or acquire program-related jobs. The PBI Formula Grant is a five-year project that began October 1, 2012 and runs through September 30, 2016. City Colleges is budgeted to receive $250,000 per college, per budget year.
Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Learning Communities for STEM – Federal: Olive-Harvey College receives
funding from the DOE to establish a STEM student learning community as well as develop an effective teaching program. The student learning community will expose students to STEM fields, provide an infrastructure to support the transition to college level STEM courses and increase completion and transfer to four-year institutions. The Center for Teaching and Learning will develop an infrastructure, facility and equipment to expand STEM resources as well as increase professional development to improve STEM teaching. The Learning Communities for STEM Grant is a four-year project that began October 1, 2011 and runs through September 30, 2015. City Colleges is budgeted to receive $600,000 per budget year.
Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Project GEMS – Federal: Kennedy-King College receives funding from the
DOE to increase African-American male enrollment at the College and to increase those students’ success in college courses and retention from semester to semester, ultimately leading to degree and certificate completion. The program also will provide African-American students with intensive academic enrichment and develop the college’s capacity to provide focused career and transfer counseling and to track Kennedy-King College graduates. Project GEMS is a four- year project that began October 1, 2011 and runs through September 30, 2015. City Colleges is budgeted to receive $600,000 per budget year.