Higher Education Financing

Happy New Year All!

Here's a new report from the Delta Cost Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability that looks at trends in higher ed spending--where it comes from and where its going. Not surprisingly, tuition and costs are on the rise, but decreasing proportions of that money are going to classroom instruction. Some of it is offsetting reductions in state appropriations, some is going towards academic support, student services, and maintenance. Definitely worth a read! (Harrison, one of our visitors from last semester recommended checking out the Delta Cost Project work)...

http://www.deltacostproject.org/analyses/

Data like this and growing economic peril seems to indicate an untenable long-term situation...