State Funding of Higher Ed and Tuition Freezes
What specific problem is this policy proposed to solve?
Where did the problem originate?
Who are the different stakeholders?
What unique motives/incentives
Rising costs of College education, increased demand, and increasing amounts of student debt
decreases in gov't funding for higher education
32 States are spending less on public colleges than they did in 2008
Thanks to UFF’s advocacy efforts, Florida’s funding isn’t the worst. States without staff and faculty unions have seen steeper declines in state investment, such as Louisiana, where higher-ed funding declined $5,500 per student, corrected for inflation, between 2008 and 2020. Meanwhile, in states where faculty and staff regularly speak to legislators, through their unions, public colleges and universities are more likely to see improved investment. In Illinois, for example, state funding increased by nearly $5,400 per student.
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2001,2004 Great Recession
he higher education share of general fund spending fell from 14.6 percent in 1990 to 9.4 percent in 2014,
Unions
Students
University Staff
Professors
Private universities
Technical Colleges and Students
Families
Anti-education conservatives
FAFSA, budget constraints
Compet with public universities on tuition
Best bang for their buck and high quality education
Best pay and benefits for employees
Good pay and benefits and support their students/programs
Support thier salary + reasearch support students
Support their students and commpet with public 4 year schools for students
This funding should go elsewhere. Limit gov't overreach, values such as DEI, LGBTQ+