MarketWatch – Jillian Berman
“Just two states in the country are spending as much on higher education per student as they did before the recession…Even as the economy recovers, states’ level of funding for their higher education institutions hasn’t bounced back, the report found. The reasons for the cutbacks (or in two cases, the growth) in spending on colleges and universities vary based on state budget constraints, revenues and other factors…But there may also be a broader explanation for continued disinvestment in higher education, which is that it’s easy for policy makers to put funding for colleges and universities on the chopping block because constituents don’t get as agitated by the cuts as they would about say, a tax increase…”(more)