‘A Marginally Better Year’ for State Funding - Greg Toppo, Inside Higher Ed

Public higher education leaders may have reason to be cautiously optimistic this spring: an early indicator of states’ fiscal health shows modest, if uneven, improvements. States spent 3.7 percent more supporting higher education in fiscal year 2018-19 than in the previous year. The small rise continued a five-year trend of upward support that this year totals about $91.5 billion. In the previous fiscal year, support for higher education grew just 1.6 percent, according to the Grapevine survey, an annual early survey of state indicators. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/21/state-support-higher-ed-rises-37-percent-improves-over-2017