A decade since the Great Recession, state spending on public colleges and universities remains well below historical levels, contributing to dramatic cost increases for students and families, our major new report explains. That’s left many students with little...
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BEYOND THE NUMBERS
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
Higher Ed Funding Down in Nearly Every State Over Past Decade
August 24, 2017
A decade since the Great Recession hit, state spending on public colleges and universities remains well below historic levels, despite recent increases, our major new report details.
Overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the 2017...
State Policy Fellowship Applications Are Open
November 2, 2016
We’re now accepting applications for the 2017 class of State Policy Fellows. Since 2010, CBPP and the State Priorities Partnership have placed fellows in leading state-based policy organizations across the country. The fellowship is designed to:
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The State of Higher Ed Funding
August 15, 2016
With a new academic year approaching, we’ve updated our major report on state funding trends for public colleges and universities, which shows that 46 states are spending less per student than they did before the recession. While most states have boosted per-student funding in the last year, 12 states cut...
Wisconsin Higher Ed Funding Shift Inflated State Support
May 26, 2016
States provide more than half of the funds available to public two- and four-year higher education institutions, and the vast majority of states still provide less funding to them than they did before the Great Recession, as we note in our recent paper. But in many states, localities also provide...
Mapping Higher Ed Funding and Tuition Changes
May 20, 2016
Most states have begun restoring some of the deep cuts they made to public two- and four-year colleges since the recession, but their total support remains $8.7 billion below what it was just before the recession, as we detail in our new report. What’s more, 11 states cut funding even more in the past year...
State Higher Ed Funding’s Down, Tuition’s Up
May 19, 2016
Years of state funding cuts for public colleges and universities have helped drive up tuition and hurt students’ experiences by forcing faculty cuts, reduced course offerings, and program or department eliminations. Consequently, college has become less affordable and less accessible for students who need degrees to succeed in today’s economy, as we explain in our newly published...
Georgia Considers Misguided Tax Cuts
February 26, 2016
Georgia is the latest state to consider large income tax cuts despite the growing evidence that such an approach is misguided.
Two bills before Georgia lawmakers would force short-sighted cuts in the income tax, seriously weakening a...
Higher Ed Funding Cuts, State by State
January 28, 2016
With state legislative sessions beginning across the country, it’s a good time to remind lawmakers that funding for public two- and four-year colleges remains well below pre-recession levels in almost every state, as our fact sheets show. (Here, for example, is...
Why States and Localities Rely More on Criminal Justice User Fees
November 20, 2015
State and local governments increasingly charge criminal defendants for services ranging from a public defender to room and board in a prison or jail, as a Brennan Center for Justice report explains. This ...
