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Professors in Poverty • BRAVE NEW FILMS
When my son started kindergarten, most teachers qualified for food stamps because the pay was so low. That changed for the better (although there is still lots of room for improvement). Now he is in college, and his professors are working for two or three different colleges and still are not able to make ends meet. I want to know where all the money that is paid into tuition goes! A credit hour costs nearly three times what it did ten years ago and the pay rate for adjunct professors is down by half.
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which places greater dependence on tuition.
Low taxes, high tuition. Pretty direct relationship.
After adjusting for inflation:
Forty-seven states — all except Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming — are spending less per student in the 2014-15 school year than they did at the start of the recession.[2]
States cut funding deeply after the recession hit. The average state is spending $1,805, or 20 percent, less per student than it did in the 2007-08 school year.
Per-student funding in Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina is down by more than 35 percent since the start of the recession.
In 13 states, per-student funding fell over the last year. Of these, three states — Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia — have cut per-student higher education funding for the last two consecutive years.
In the last year, 37 states increased funding per student. Per-student funding rose $268, or 3.9 percent, nationally.
Deep state funding cuts have had major consequences for public colleges and universities. States (and to a lesser extent localities) provide roughly 53 percent of the revenue that can be used to support instruction at these schools.[3] When this funding is cut, colleges and universities look to make up the difference with higher tuition levels, cuts to educational or other services, or both.
http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/years-of-cuts-threaten-to-put-college-out-of-reach-for-more-students
Forty-seven states — all except Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming — are spending less per student in the 2014-15 school year than they did at the start of the recession.[2]
States cut funding deeply after the recession hit. The average state is spending $1,805, or 20 percent, less per student than it did in the 2007-08 school year.
Per-student funding in Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina is down by more than 35 percent since the start of the recession.
In 13 states, per-student funding fell over the last year. Of these, three states — Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia — have cut per-student higher education funding for the last two consecutive years.
In the last year, 37 states increased funding per student. Per-student funding rose $268, or 3.9 percent, nationally.
Deep state funding cuts have had major consequences for public colleges and universities. States (and to a lesser extent localities) provide roughly 53 percent of the revenue that can be used to support instruction at these schools.[3] When this funding is cut, colleges and universities look to make up the difference with higher tuition levels, cuts to educational or other services, or both.
http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/years-of-cuts-threaten-to-put-college-out-of-reach-for-more-students
