Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 9 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 53 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 221 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 453 |
Descriptor
Public Colleges | 683 |
State Aid | 683 |
Educational Finance | 471 |
Higher Education | 415 |
Tuition | 351 |
Student Financial Aid | 255 |
Income | 220 |
Private Colleges | 219 |
Financial Support | 213 |
Enrollment | 208 |
Community Colleges | 202 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Baum, Sandy | 15 |
Laderman, Sophia | 11 |
Ma, Jennifer | 11 |
Pender, Matea | 6 |
Schmidt, Peter | 6 |
Burke, Joseph C. | 5 |
Davis, Jerry S. | 5 |
Fletcher, Carla | 5 |
Hines, Edward R. | 5 |
Johnson, Hans | 5 |
Bell, D'Wayne | 4 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 69 |
Administrators | 30 |
Practitioners | 23 |
Researchers | 22 |
Students | 6 |
Teachers | 6 |
Community | 3 |
Parents | 1 |
Location
California | 55 |
South Carolina | 37 |
Texas | 36 |
Tennessee | 34 |
Washington | 34 |
Illinois | 28 |
Ohio | 28 |
Virginia | 26 |
Colorado | 21 |
Wisconsin | 21 |
Mississippi | 19 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Boland, William Casey – Educational Policy, 2020
Pay-for-performance has become a state finance policy du jour for public postsecondary institutions. A total of 35 states currently distribute varying amounts of appropriations to colleges and universities based on outcome measures. This study uses a difference-in-differences quasi-experimental technique to assess the impact of performance-based…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Incentives
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael F. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Human Capital
Education Commission of the States, 2020
What do state policies say about how to fund postsecondary education? This 50-State Comparison answers this question by searching state statutes, state rules and regulations, enacted state budget bills, and state postsecondary education agency policies that address postsecondary education budgeting and funding. According to the content of the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Educational Policy, State Policy
Aaron S. Horn; Olena G. Horner; David A. Tandberg; Robert K. Toutkoushian; Shaun N. Williams-Wyche – Journal of Education Finance, 2023
This study estimates the effect of state appropriations on the graduation rates of freshman cohorts by race/ethnicity. Data were obtained for public four-year institutions (n = 415) representing six freshman cohorts between 2007 and 2012. Hybrid regression models indicated that a ten percent increase in appropriations would yield a percentage…
Descriptors: State Aid, Graduation Rate, Student Diversity, College Graduates
Li, Amy Y. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
Public colleges and universities depend heavily on state appropriations and legislatures must decide how much to fund higher education. This study applies punctuated equilibrium theory to characterize the distribution of annual changes in higher education appropriations and defines the threshold for a dramatic budget cut. Using data for the 50…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Aid, Budgeting, Retrenchment
Brittnee Amberley Quintanar – ProQuest LLC, 2022
California is home to the nation's largest higher education systems which once served as "the model" for access, affordability, and excellence. However, decades of declining state investment and existing policies are "marginalizing the majority" of California students and perpetuating social stratification across the state.…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Barriers, Bachelors Degrees, Higher Education
Bennett, Cassandra; Law, Mark – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study was to provide a theoretical model for public higher education. Significant financial challenges are affecting the future of the public higher education sector of the United States. With a decline in enrollments in conjunction with minimal increases in state funding sources, many have speculated what the future holds for…
Descriptors: Public Education, Higher Education, Models, Theories
Schak, J. Oliver – Institute for College Access & Success, 2021
"Dismantling Dire Disparities: A Closer Look at Racially Inequitable Funding at Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities" examines funding and resource patterns from the Great Recession to the peak of the economic recovery (2006 to 2018), and takes a deep dive into the public four-year colleges that disproportionately enroll and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Equity (Finance), Racial Discrimination, Minority Group Students
Education Commission of the States, 2020
What do state policies say about how to fund postsecondary education? This 50-State Comparison answers this question by searching state statutes, state rules and regulations, enacted state budget bills, and state postsecondary education agency policies that address postsecondary education budgeting and funding. This comparison examines whether the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Educational Policy, State Policy
Danner, Phyllis A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As noted in the national publication regarding the Value of HBCUs (Cotton, 2018), "Historically black colleges and universities have made a lasting global imprint on virtually every facet of culture and society. HBCU alumni have ascended to leadership positions in government, education, business and industry, science and technology, medicine,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Whites, Enrollment
McClure, Kevin R.; Titus, Marvin A. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Despite occupying a central position in contemporary U.S. higher education discourse, empirical research on administrative costs is limited. The purpose of this study was to extend existing research on administrative spending in higher education by empirically examining whether recently shifting to research university status in the Carnegie…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Public Colleges, Reputation, Expenditures
Hu, Xiaodan; Villarreal, Pedro – Research in Higher Education, 2019
Louisiana's performance-based funding (PBF) policy is one of the most recent implementations of performance funding established by a state for accountability purposes. Instead of examining direct academic outcomes, this study focuses on tuition increase as an (un)intended outcome of PBF implementation. We use data from multiple sources to create a…
Descriptors: Tuition, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Performance
Koh, Jonathan P.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Hardy, David E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
This chapter reviews multiple variables across all public community colleges, and unveils marked disparities in public funding between and within the states at community colleges of different sizes and geographical settings.
Descriptors: State Aid, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Financial Support
Jaquette, Ozan – Review of Higher Education, 2019
This study investigates the relationship between state appropriations and master's degree (MA) enrollment at public master's universities from 1992-93 to 2014-15. Two competing theoretical perspectives emerge. Resource dependence theory argues that public universities have a financial incentive to grow MA enrollment following declines in state…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, State Aid, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
Tom Harnisch; Rachel Burns; Kelsey Heckert; Kelsey Kunkle; Dustin Weeden – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2024
Public higher education leaders have entered 2024 aided by tailwinds of fiscal stability in many states and a strong national economy, but some challenges of the post-pandemic era remain, including strengthening the value proposition of higher education, building public trust, and meeting changing economic and workforce needs. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, Public Colleges