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Zhao, Bo – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2019
Public higher education produces many benefits that are vital to the New England economy, but it is increasingly at risk following years of state budget cuts. In 2017 in New England, real per-student state funding for higher education was lower than it was in 2008, with a double-digit decline in each of the region's states except Maine. States…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Retrenchment, Budgeting
Research for Action, 2019
Outcomes-based funding (OBF) has become an increasingly common tool for states seeking to improve student outcomes, and the inclusion of certificates in OBF policies has been subject to considerable scrutiny. But studying the effects of OBF on certificates is exceptionally challenging. Certificates vary greatly in length, type, and labor market…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Outcome Based Education, Certification, State Aid
Anderson, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Universities and colleges have experienced a reduction in state appropriations since the 2008 Great Recession. The purpose of this phenomenological dissertation in practice study was to examine whether distance education would be a viable strategy to compensate for declining state appropriations at four-year public higher education institutions in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Public Colleges, State Aid, Strategic Planning
Zhao, Bo – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2018
In aggregate, state appropriations are the largest revenue source for public higher education in the United States. However, these appropriations have significantly declined over past decades, drawing serious concerns about the potential negative impact on schools and students. This paper provides a more comprehensive study of the effects of state…
Descriptors: State Aid, Public Education, Higher Education, Financial Support
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2018
Each year the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report, the 49th annual survey, represents data from academic year 2017-18. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
Pew Charitable Trusts, 2019
States and the federal government have long provided substantial financial support for higher education, but in recent years, their respective levels of contribution have shifted significantly. Given the essential role that government funding plays in higher education access and operations, policymakers across the nation frequently face difficult…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, State Aid, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Policy Matters Ohio, 2020
In Ohio, the pandemic has forced students to pause their pursuit of a college degree or abandon their aspirations for higher education all together. The health crisis has accelerated a downward trend in enrollment in public higher education, at least for now, and thrown into sharp relief the barriers that prevent Black and brown students, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, College Students
Turner, Sarah – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
Substantial investments by states dramatically increased the scale and scope of public colleges and universities beginning in the early 20th century and provided subsidized post-secondary opportunities across institutions ranging from community colleges to research universities. Nearly 50 years ago, economists Lee Hansen and Burton Weisbrod opened…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tuition, Paying for College, Public Colleges
Lumina Foundation, 2018
This brief tells the story of Indiana's efforts to develop and implement outcomes-based funding (OBF) for public postsecondary education. Indiana's story is supplemented by a briefer description of efforts in Tennessee. Based primarily on interviews with key state leaders, this story is designed to highlight the unique path each state took to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Postsecondary Education, Public Colleges
Bombaugh, Michelle; Miller, Thomas E. – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2019
As performance-based funding models have become the new norm for allocating state funds, universities have begun to focus more on meeting and exceeding persistence and graduation metrics. For those universities that have already made substantial gains in these metrics by implementing changes that address large populations of students, attaining…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, School Holding Power, Public Colleges, Educational Finance
Anthony, Marshall, Jr.; Nichols, Andrew H.; Schak, J. Oliver – Education Trust, 2019
For millions of college-going students, one of the most urgent concerns is the rising cost of college and how to pay for it -- and not just for tuition but other necessities like textbooks, housing, food, and transportation. The idea that one can work one's way through college with a minimum-wage job is, in most cases, a myth. Students from…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Students, College Bound Students, Public Colleges
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2021
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) has a codified responsibility to develop the Commonwealth's state-level strategic plan for higher education and to review The Plan every six years to ensure its relevance in addressing critical issues. In 2019, to fulfill a Code requirement and more important, to identify the main near-…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Strategic Planning, State Programs, Educational Objectives
Ahlman, Lindsay – Institute for College Access & Success, 2020
Millions of college students, across the nation and in California, benefit from financial aid that reduces the amount students and families must pay for tuition and fees, supplies, and living expenses like food, housing, and transportation while enrolled. In California, concerns about college costs and affordability have in recent years expanded…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, Higher Education, State Aid
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
Shireman, Robert; Baum, Sandy; Mishory, Jennifer – Century Foundation, 2018
Under a contract with the California Student Aid Commission, The Century Foundation (TCF) has been tasked with "identifying options for improving affordability at California colleges and universities," and suggesting ways to streamline and consolidate existing programs "to reduce current students' cost of attendance, thus reducing…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Costs, Grants, State Aid