Almanac
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF TOOL
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The Almanac is a "Factbook". It has two sets of data: 1) 
Academic: headcount, FTSE, age, gender, ethnicity, part-
time/full-time, admission status, residency, and other 
demographics. 2) Financial: a summary of audited revenues 
and expenditures, college budgets, personnel, and utilities. 
(It contains a history of the information most commonly used 
for, by college and district.)

The data are contained in a set of spreadsheets. Each 
spreadsheet contains the raw data, percentages, a graph, and 
comments. The purpose is to give simple access to data and 
to provide easy methods to transfer data to other documents 
without re-keying.
 
IMPORTANT FEATURES OF TOOL
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+ Look at trend data.

+ Copy selected data from spreadsheet to word processing or 
desktop publishing documents.

+ Use SAVE AS menu option to make a copy of the spreadsheet.

+ Use TOOLBOX menu option to graph only the data you select, 
change the type of graph displayed, or enlarge a graph to 
full page size for presentations.

+ Print a copy of the spreadsheet and graph.

+ Add notation to the comment box.

WHO WOULD USE THIS TOOL?
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Anyone needing information on trends.

HOW DOES THE TOOL SUPPORT EFFECTIVE AND LEARNING?
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Describes students, shows how students are changing, and 
indicates how finances are allocated.

CONTACT PERSONS
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Cathy Urbanski, CGCC,732-7011
Gail Snyder, EMCCC,935-8808
Mary Day, DIST,731-8014
Linda Hawbaker, DIST 731-8037
Donna Silber, DIST 731-8025
Bonnie Welsh, GCC ,435-3483
Jim DeVere, GWCC, 392-5210 
Carol Petersen, MCC, 461-7478 
Marion Gibney, PC, 285-7259
Shirley Green, PVCC, 493-2760 
Debbie Bala, RSCC, 223-4013 
Pam Walter, RSCC, 223-4209
John Silvester, SCC, 423-6139 
Sue Starrfield, SMCC, 243-8047