084: Enrollment, Tuition, and State Support

Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt

Show Notes:

Sophia Laderman from the State Higher Education Executive Offices Association joins the podcast this week to discuss the funding of higher education and how it has impacted tuition over the years.

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. . . if we go all the way back to 1980, funding was a lot higher, several thousand dollars per student higher. So, that means your average student at a public institution was getting a lot more state money for their education. And so, as state funding has gone down, tuition revenue has gone up and I think that’s what ends up in the news most often is increases in tuition rates that affect students . . .
Sophia Laderman, SHEEO

. . . there’s all this talk of a recession coming up, so with the next recession, it looks like funding will probably decline even further and that’s definitely concerning because . . . we might be at the point where we can’t really raise tuition anymore without pricing students out of the market and so it seems like there’s a big crunch coming up for the financing of higher education.
Sophia Laderman, SHEEO

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