The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a special report on public colleges, detailing how state funding declines and rising tuition have put increasing pressure on largely need blind public colleges and the students they enroll. The first section of the report, 鈥�,鈥� shows the decline in state funding for higher education through the eyes of six interested parties鈥攁 lobbyist, an anti-tax activist, a state Senate member, a Governor, a higher education advocate, and a university president. The second essay, 鈥�,鈥� cautions that state disinvestment in higher education has shifted the cost burden such that students and their families pay for more than half of their education in many states. The third piece, 鈥�,鈥� warns that public higher education no longer serves as a ladder for upward mobility, since college costs are often too much for low-income students to bear and financial aid has not kept up with rising tuition. The fourth and fifth sections, 鈥�鈥� and 鈥�鈥� contain info-graphics that show the decline in state support for public colleges between 1987 and 2012, as well as detail the cost sharing breakdown between students and the state.
The Office of Planning & Budgeting has done similar analyses in the past few years. Despite the fall in state support, the 91探花has remained committed to providing generous need-based financial aid. As a result, the net price of attending the 91探花is $9,395. Check out OPB鈥檚 analysis of net price at the 91探花and our peer institutions
To read the full special report, check out the Chronicle鈥檚 .