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Kelderman, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In this article, the author examines the financial crisis on Wall Street which resonates through higher education across the state, and beyond. The economic malaise is taking its toll in places like Rhode Island, where state budget cuts of 17 percent forced colleges to cut class offerings and leave more than 150 positions unfilled. Florida's…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Budgets, State Colleges
Kelderman, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Universities are watching their state budgets crumble across the country: The University of Arizona has put a freeze on all state-financed hiring, Georgia's 14 technical colleges are being merged into seven, and New York will probably have to shelve a plan to create a $3-billion fund to attract cutting-edge research to the Empire State, which…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Higher Education, Faculty Mobility, Fiscal Capacity
Galloway, Jennifer A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Recent state appropriations for higher education in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont are tabulated. Governors in all those states signed spending bills for higher education. (MLW)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Higher Education, State Action, State Aid
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York face giant deficits in their state budgets. The financial impact of the 1986 federal tax reform law was underestimated by colleges and income estimates were overly optimistic for 1988 and 1989. Unpopular, new taxes are seen as the way to solve the budget crunch. (MLW)
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Higher Education