Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
Despite eight years of state funding increases, higher education institutions had historically low state support heading into the pandemic-induced recession, according to an annual report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. State appropriations per full-time-equivalent student increased 2.9% in fiscal 2020 when adjusted for inflation and including $428 million in federal relief funding, SHEEO found. But the organization’s early estimates show funding for public colleges is expected to decline in most states in fiscal 2021.
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