Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education, Atlantic, Nation of Change
States with double-digit decreases in state allocations for higher educations from 2010-2011 to 2011-2012:
New Hampshire -41.5%
Arizona -25.1%
Wisconsin -20.9%
Louisiana -18.5%
Colorado -15.4%
Tennessee -15.0%
Virginia -14.7%
Oklahoma -14.5%
Washington -14.5%
Nevada -14.0%
California -13.5%
Pennsylvania -13.4%
Wyoming -12.7%
Connecticut -12.2%
Michigan -12.2%
Illinois -12.1%
Florida -12.0%
New Mexico -11.6%
Georgia -11.5%
Ohio -11.8%
North Dakota -10.4%
Decline in state support for higher education as a percentage of total state spending from 1978 to 2007: 40%.
Increases in tuition due to decreased state support at the 22 campuses in the California State University system from 2007 to 2010: from 35% at Humboldt State University to 47% at San Diego State University.
Percentage of California’s state budget allocated to prisons and to post-secondary education, respectively, in 1979: 3% and 10%.
Percentage of California’s state budget allocated to prisons and to post- secondary education, respectively, in 2009: 11% and 7.5%.
Percentage of revenue of selected “Public Ivies” from state support in 1989: University of California at Berkeley, 47%; University of Michigan, 48%; University of Virginia, 33%.
Percentage of revenue of selected “Public Ivies” from state support in 2009: University of California at Berkeley, 47%; University of Michigan, 17%; University of Virginia, 7%.
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