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Declining State Budgets: A Structural and Administrative View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2005
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Ever since I have been involved in higher education, I have noticed a consistent cyclicalpattern in state funding of higher education. Would that this were the pattern of thefuture! Although funding has historically been cyclical, since the 1970s the proportion of astate's budget dedicated to higher education has shown a steadily declining trend, from 9.8%in 1980 to 7% last year (Schmidt 2004). We are witness to achanging pattern in the relationship between the states and higher education. Highereducation is increasingly viewed as a private rather than a public good, and this evolvingperception will substantially impact both public and independent institutions. Tuition willbecome more comparable and competitive.
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