State Higher Education Funding Has Dropped 10 Percent Since The Great Recession

State Higher Education Funding Has Dropped 10 Percent Since The Great Recession: State budget cuts brought about by the Great Recession have hammered funding for higher education, and as a whole, state governments will spend 10.8 percent less on higher education this year than they did in the fiscal year prior to the recession, according to data from the Grapevine Project at Illinois State University. Overall, only [...]/p