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Weeden, Dustin – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2022
Capital appropriations are an important but often forgotten component of the public contribution to funding higher education. In fiscal year 2021, nearly $13 billion was appropriated for capital projects at public institutions, representing 11.6% of the total state contribution to higher education. When compared to general operating support and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Higher Education, State Universities, Educational Finance
Emmanuel Rodriguez; Laura Szabo-Kubitz – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
This brief examines how specific college affordability policies and practices at the federal, state, and institutional levels can be strengthened to close racial equity gaps in college affordability and completion and to support widespread diversity and representation in higher education. By increasing access to financial aid and shifting the way…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Minority Group Students, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid
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Titus, Marvin A. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Using an output distance function as an analytic framework, stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), and a generalized true random effects (GTRE) model, this study examines the financial context of bachelor's degree production efficiency among public master's colleges and universities (MCUs) in the United States. Employing a GTRE model, degree…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Finance, Efficiency
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Erwin, Christopher; Binder, Melissa – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
We use the natural experiment of a state lottery scholarship to measure the effect of generous financial aid on graduation rates at New Mexico's flagship public university. During the study period, the scholarship program paid full tuition for eight semesters for any state resident earning a 2.5 grade point average in their first semester at any…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, State Aid, Public Colleges, Graduation Rate
Kunkle, Kelsey – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2023
The per-student data included in the State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report provide useful information about revenues relative to the need to fund higher education and are important for examining the impact of funding differences on public institutions and students across states and over time. However, examining state support on a full-time…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, State Aid, Expenditure per Student
Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Kanter, Martha J. – Harvard Education Press, 2022
"Educating the Top 100 Percent" assesses the decline of higher education funding and offers ambitious policy recommendations to restore the possibility of accessible, affordable education for all. Stephen G. Katsinas, Nathaniel J. Bray, and Martha J. Kanter probe the complex interplay of federal, state, and local policies and illustrate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Federal Aid
Kathleen G. VanDyke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While there has been disinvestment into higher education, there is also a significant disparity in state investment for certain types of public institutions, specifically for less-resourced institutions such as HBCUs (Williams, 2020). There is not much literature that examines the relationship of formula funding or state appropriations on…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Black Colleges, Stakeholders, Educational Finance
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Hagood, Lori Prince – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019
Performance funding in higher education is intended to incentivize increased degree production at American colleges and universities by linking state funds directly to institutional outcomes. However, many critics suggest that such funding arrangements create systems of "winners and losers" by rewarding some institutions over others.…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Higher Education, Incentives, State Aid
Christian Michael Smith – Grantee Submission, 2022
According to the theory of Effectively Maintained Inequality (EMI), economically advantaged individuals not only enter each level of education at higher rates than do their less advantaged peers, but also enjoy qualitative advantages at each level that position them more favorably to continue to the next level. Governments may play a role in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, State Aid, School Funds
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Handel, Stephen J.; Strempel, Eileen – College and University, 2021
In 2008 it was certain that the Great Recession would represent--for this generation--the singular reordering of higher education. As a result, it was assumed that colleges and universities would be forced to become vastly more efficient places by graduating more students with high-value certificates and degrees. Despite significant cuts to higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, COVID-19, Pandemics
Mishory, Jen; Stettner, Andrew – Century Foundation, 2020
Michigan's public higher education institutions have seen decades of decline in per-student funding, leaving students to face costs that are simply out of reach. The state, for the most part, relies on institutions to provide aid to bring down costs for students at four-year institutions, rather than providing students with aid directly via state…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Public Colleges, Student Costs
Ariella Meltzer; Kate Westaby – Urban Institute, 2024
States, systems, and colleges in the Great Lakes region have made important investments in basic needs, but more progress is needed. Addressing basic needs--which includes income, food, housing, health, mental health and well-being, child care, transportation, and technology--helps support college access and completion. The Urban Institute…
Descriptors: Financial Needs, Housing Needs, Health Needs, Psychological Needs
Laderman, Sophia; Kunkle, Kelsey – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2022
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of public policy decisions in each state that contribute to public higher education funding levels and funding distributions across states and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Public Policy
Laderman, Sophia; Kunkle, Kelsey – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2022
Since 2003, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) has produced the annual State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report to broaden understanding and enable analysis of state-level and national funding and enrollment trends over time. The final section in each SHEF report has focused on the effort and capacity of states…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Educational Finance, State Aid, State Policy
Laderman, Sophia; Heckert, Kelsey – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2021
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of public policy decisions in each state that contribute to public higher education funding levels and funding distributions across states and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, State Aid, Financial Support
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