The 2017–18 State Budget Act allocated $5M to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to support a Veterans Resource Center (VRC) grant program designed to help CCC establish or enhance on-campus VRCs. In an effort to better understand the current state of VRCs in the wake of this funding, Irvine Valley College contracted with The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) in fall 2019 to develop and administer a VRC Operations and Spending Survey focused on how Veteran Resource Centers (VRCs) operate, how they are utilized by students, and how they allocate their funding to support students. IVC sent this online survey to colleagues at the 114 California Community Colleges (CCC) with VRCs to gather information on VRC operations and budgeting. Personnel at 35 CCC VRCs completed the survey, a 30% response rate.
Project Team
Katie Brohawn, PhD
Andrew Kretz, PhD
Alyssa Nguyen, MA
Michelle White, MA