Evaluating State Funding Effort for Higher Education. MHEC Policy Brief

Autor/inn/en	Tandberg, David A.; Laderman, Sophia A.
Institution	Midwestern Higher Education Compact; University of Michigan, National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good
Titel	Evaluating State Funding Effort for Higher Education. MHEC Policy Brief
Quelle	(2018), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Program Evaluation; State Aid; Educational Finance; Higher Education; Measurement; Expenditures; Decision Making; Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; Educational Policy; State Policy; Financial Policy; Taxes; Governance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Bildungsfonds; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Messverfahren; Ausgaben; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Abgabe; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung
Abstract	Higher education makes important contributions to the betterment of society and to the lives of individuals. On a societal level, higher education supplies an educated citizenry and workforce. For individuals, higher education provides an opportunity for personal development, fulfillment, and economic mobility. States play a large role in helping public colleges and universities fulfill these promised benefits. In the annual State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report, several ways of assessing state effort are presented, such as by analyzing higher education spending relative to personal income, population, or total tax revenue. Each measure highlights different aspects of the general concept of state higher education funding effort. Within the empirical literature, state effort has been examined using several of these measures. This research has revealed a number of factors that help determine an individual state's effort, finding that decisions about state funding for higher education are made in the context of multiple external factors, including current and projected economic conditions, competing priorities across the state, cultural and ideological shifts in the state population, political and higher education characteristics of the state, and state tax structures. In this report, changes in state funding for higher education, the concept of state effort and how to define and measure it, national trends in state effort, and state trends in state effort are explored. Then the empirical research on what impacts state effort is examined, and the paper concludes with policy considerations and recommendations. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01