Another useful statistic is how much your college is paying for student services per capita in relation to other schools. There was a study done years (and years) ago which I sited in a (succcessful) bid to get a raise in funding, but I haven't seen anything since and that one would be out of date. Good luck Laura Symons -----Original Message----- From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals on behalf of Squires, Miya Sent: Fri 2/11/2005 11:39 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Budgets? Tracking numbers and impressive student success rates. Jim Prager at = Yuba College in Yuba City, CA is especially good at the second. Miya -----Original Message----- From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals on behalf of Dan = Johnson Sent: Fri 2/11/2005 4:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Budgets? =20 Is there a good (non-belligerent?) way of expanding a budget for = learning centers that does not involve a great deal of red tape and/or a great = deal of, let me call it "nagging persistence"? As a fairly new Director, I = have learned that budgets are rather tenuous items and seem to subject to = change on a frequent basis. Any thoughts? D.J. Johnson Academic Success Center Director Kaplan University (563)441-3164 [log in to unmask] Office 204 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 12/26/2004 To unsubscribe,send a message to [log in to unmask] In body type: SIGNOFF LRNASST-L To access LRNASST-L archives,point your web browser to = http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To subscribe, send email to [log in to unmask] Leave subject blank.In body type: subscribe LRNASST-L To contact list owner,email [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe,send a message to [log in to unmask] In body type: SIGNOFF LRNASST-L To access LRNASST-L archives,point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To subscribe, send email to [log in to unmask] Leave subject blank.In body type: subscribe LRNASST-L To contact list owner,email [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe,send a message to [log in to unmask] In body type: SIGNOFF LRNASST-L To access LRNASST-L archives,point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To subscribe, send email to [log in to unmask] Leave subject blank.In body type: subscribe LRNASST-L To contact list owner,email [log in to unmask]