/PRNewswire/ Most states have not recovered from recessionary cuts in state funding and now face declines in other revenue sources. Public institutions may.
Report: State Funding Closely Linked to Student Success
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State funding for public higher education institutions and student financial aid have a direct impact on student success, a new report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association concluded.
The report examined 100 empirical research studies that measured the impacts of state appropriations on institutional and student outcomes.
State appropriations feed directly into revenues for public higher education institutions. When states pass budget cuts, doctoral institutions are more likely to fill resulting budget gaps through tuition increases. Meanwhile, two- and four-year institutions often cut expenditures on instruction, academic support and student services, the report said.
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KLCC s Elizabeth Gabriel reports on financial aid in Oregon.
Yoyo is a high school junior in Eugene. We’re not using her last name to protect her privacy. Although Yoyo still has another year of high school, she’s already concerned about how she’s going to afford college. The 17-year-old works at a local Subway shop and her mom has a full-time job. Still, it’s hard to make ends meet and she doesn’t have a college savings.
And Yoyo sometimes has to explain to her friends the challenges her family faces.
“They just think that, ‘Oh, like, my dad is where he is because he worked hard,’ bullcrap. Because my mom works her butt off all the time. So hard work has nothing to do with it,” she said. “And I think that s the biggest misconception that people think, oh, if you just work hard, you ll get there. No, that s not true at all. Because you see people working hard all the time, and still barely being able to provide for their families.”