1. How does a board of trustees member help the community-technical colleges (CTC) achieve their mission?

2. What are the greatest challenges facing the CTCs and what is the board doing to address them? How can the legislature help?

3. How has the state’s budget situation affected CTCs and their students? Can the CTCs maintain up-to-date facilities for training allied health professionals and technical workers? At what point do tuition and fee increases restrict access to the colleges or change the composition of the student population? How can the CTCs maintain their availability for low-income students?

4. How long does it typically take a CTC student to complete a degree or certificate program? What do the colleges do to retain students and help them complete their programs?

5. How much debt do CTC students typically accrue during the course of their studies? What is the trend? Does this affect student retention and program completion?

6. Many students use CTCs to learn or enhance job skills. Do the CTCs track students’ post-college employment rates and starting salaries? What do they show? What industries recruit CTC students? How do the CTCs reach out to industries?

7. The CTCs figure prominently in the state’s economic development plan, Partnership for Growth II. How have the CTCs addressed the workforce needs of the state’s major industry clusters? To what extent do the CTCs work with industries on setting worker skill standards and developing curricula to train workers to those standards?

8. What is the success rate of CTC graduates who go on to four-year colleges? What are the barriers to successful transition and graduation?

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