This year marks the 20th year of National Access and Finance Survey (NAFS) studies of access and funding issues in public higher education. National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges (NCSDCC) members are surveyed because of their broad knowledge of access and finance issues across education sectors and state government as well. For 2022, the first after the COVID pandemic, survey respondents could respond online or by paper. The authors offer two important caveats: first, differences exist in funding, assigned state missions, and organization of community colleges, and they are greater at community colleges than at public higher education's other two sectors: flagship and regional universities. Second, since most NAFS items are on a Likert scale that ranges from strongly agree to strongly disagree, results are perceptions. The two main research questions for looking across the current and past surveys are, first, what are current budget drivers, and how does that fit with what has been seen in the past?, and second, based on past and current responses, what are expected trends for the future? Details on survey collection and methods can be found in the introduction to this volume.