Higher Ed’s Economic Challenges
The global economic downturn has had a profound impact on nearly all industries. Higher education is no exception. As students struggle to find affordable options for continuing their educations, institutions of higher education have found it increasingly difficult to conduct “business as usual” in the face of shrinking government funding, dwindling endowments, and increasing enrollments. Below is a compilation of articles from across the nation that provide a glimpse into the new, harder reality facing higher education today. I saved many of these links from Ray Schroeder’s blog, “Recession Realities in Higher Education” but have posted others that I’ve found in my own reading. Indexing them state by state allows you to see from these headlines and related articles that colleges and universities are facing an unprecedented and widespread challenge from the economic downturn. Unfortunately, far too few of these articles portray thoughtful versus reactionary budgetary solutions. Ideally, I’ll start to find a few examples of thoughtful decisions as this downturn in higher ed financing continues.
Tags: higher ed budget solutions, impact of the economy on higer education, recession realities in higer education
May 25th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
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April 6th, 2011 at 11:48 am
[...] think that their lens is a worthy examination that policymakers should consider when looking at the funding challenges that are occurring in many states. Higher education is complex, but as the authors point out, [...]
August 31st, 2011 at 9:44 am
[...] has had a catastrophic impact on many schools (see my daily headline postings and links in the “Impact of the Economy on Higher Education” section of my blog for some examples). With less money allotted for scholarships, work study [...]
November 28th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
[...] a deluge of articles have been published exploring the price of a college education (see the “Impact of the Economy on Higher Education” section of this blog) but little has been written for the American public about the true cost of [...]