ERIC Number: EJ1436268
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1062
"One of the Weakest Budget Players in the State": State Funding of Higher Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v46 n3 p458-482 2024
Prior studies have documented the pattern of decreased state funding for higher education in periods of economic contraction (i.e., the balance wheel phenomenon). This qualitative case study examines how policymakers in California and Texas made decisions about funding higher education at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when policymakers faced an economic downturn. Data comprise 28 interviews with key state actors and 69 documents. The analysis expands prior understandings of how state policymakers make budgeting decisions that affect higher education by exploring how they perceive certain target populations as deserving or undeserving of state support. The study also sheds light on the tenuous relationship between policymakers' views of higher education and their funding decisions.
Descriptors: State Aid, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Decision Making, Attitudes, State Policy, Budgeting, Politics of Education, Economic Climate
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Information Analyses
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: California; Texas
Grant or Contract Numbers: P2CHD042849