Objective: In the first study of its kind, the impact of excluding noncredit enrollments in calculations of spending in community colleges is explored. Noncredit enrollments are not reported to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), but expenditures for these efforts are. This study corrects for this omission and provides new estimates of spending on community college students in four states. Method: Data on noncredit enrollments were made available from four states—New York, New Jersey, California, and North Carolina. Interviews with campus and state officials within each state helped us verify the findings. In addition, Delta Cost Project data were analyzed and adjusted to account for noncredit enrollments. Results: Our analysis indicates that the expenditure per full-time equivalent (FTE) student measure, which researchers typically use, seriously overstates the resources that community colleges have to spend on educating students; however, great variations exist within and across states. Conclusion: Community colleges are underfunded to an even greater extent than standard IPEDS analyses indicate.

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调整非学分入学的大学成本：数据极客或政策制定者的问题？

目标：在同类研究中的第一项研究中，探讨了在计算社区大学支出时排除非学分入学人数的影响。非学分注册不会报告给综合高等教育数据系统 (IPEDS)，但这些工作的支出是。这项研究纠正了这一遗漏，并提供了对四个州社区大学生支出的新估计。方法：从四个州（纽约州、新泽西州、加利福尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州）获得有关非学分注册的数据。对每个州的校园和州官员的采访帮助我们验证了调查结果。此外，还对 Delta Cost Project 数据进行了分析和调整，以考虑非学分注册。结果：我们的分析表明，每个全日制等效 (FTE) 学生的支出衡量，研究人员通常使用的，严重夸大了社区大学必须用于教育学生的资源；然而，国家内部和国家之间存在很大差异。结论：社区大学资金不足的程度比标准 IPEDS 分析显示的还要严重。