Community Colleges vs. Universities

摘要

Atop at any list of colleges and universities ranked according to annual fundraising, you'll see familiar names: Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, etc. The difference between donor funding at universities and commuter/community colleges is staggering. The 20th-highest fundraising university or college in 2007 was the University of California at San Francisco (UC-San Francisco), which raised nearly $252 million. By comparison, Salt Lake Community College raised more funds than all otherrncommunity colleges with private funding in 2007 by garnering more than $26 million - but that figure barely comprises one-tenth of what UC-San Francisco raked in.