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College Funding Under Pressure As International Students Decline And States Cut Money

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Rupert Hargreaves
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A recent Grapevine Report by the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University and the State Higher Education Executive Officers, concluded that during 2018 initially approved state fiscal support for higher education nationwide would rise by a modest 1.6% from fiscal 2016-17 to fiscal 2017-18, the lowest annual percentage increase in the past five years.

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The percentage increase is even lower when you strip out California, Florida, and Georgia which together accounted for the bulk of the modest increase. Excluding these regions, total funding across the...

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