For decades, there have been complaints that states have been cutting funding for colleges, often referred to as state disinvestment. But in my annual report tracking trends in state funding, I show that state disinvestment is a myth. The figure below shows state funding per student over the past 43 years. The dashed blue regression […]
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Is America about to embark on the “mass defunding of public higher education”? Fredrik deBoer thinks it’s a real, horrifying possibility. In a Los Angeles Times op-ed and on his blog, he argues that the political basis for this defunding now exists. The problem, according to the Pew Research Center, is that the list of […]
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