<p>This article includes a map showing which public university systems will likely face budget pressures in the next 18 months.</p>
<p>[Most</a> Public Colleges Face Budget Cut Threats in 2011 - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/paying-for-college/2010/07/12/most-public-colleges-face-budget-cut-threats-in-2011.html]Most”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/paying-for-college/2010/07/12/most-public-colleges-face-budget-cut-threats-in-2011.html)</p>
<p>thank you for posting…</p>
<p>This is a disturbing trend. A state rep who came to talk at my school discussed how education is hit first/early in bad economic times, and universities were struggling enough before the economic downturn.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to see, however, that Alaska has a negligible budged shortfall despite spending twice the per student national average. Obviously there’s a much smaller population, but it’s evident that there is a lot of room for improvement in the US.</p>
<p>Considering the size of Texas and the fact that we’re only “high” means we’re doing quite well. Add to the fact that our economy is relatively good and I doubt we will have any significant budget cuts.</p>
<p>wooooo California</p>
<p>Dam so does this mean that % of student getting accepted to the UC’s drop drop AGAIN this year? When is this going to end?</p>
<p>Actually not much new about this trend for many states per student spending has been declining for years.</p>
<p>That high number for Alaska seems dodgy. Yes, we have a high cost of living here, but so does Hawai’i, and they’re not spending nearly as much. We also have lots of oil revenue and a big budget reserve, which lets us spend quite a bit, but still, our universities aren’t good enough to justify those numbers.</p>
<p>probably small number of students drives the number up.</p>
<p>With this news, I suspect that some of the public school rankings will drop eventually, since the quality may suffer along with the budget cutbacks.</p>
<p>:( UCSB</p>
<p>Time to raise taxes on the ultra-rich (like millions a year rich).</p>
<p>The trend will continue - more wealthy students and more out of state and internationals.</p>
<p>The state of PA. just adopted their new budget for 2010-11. Funding for Penn State and U. Pittsbugh is level. With inflation, that works out to a slight cut, but it is still much better than in most states.</p>
<p>The Gov. of New Jersey cut funding to NJ public colleges by about 15% this year, on top of big cuts last year. He then formed a committee to try to figure out why so many students leave NJ to go to college.</p>
<p>The University of North Carolina system has decided to narrow a huge budget gap by raising tuition across all the schools in the system. UNC - Chapel Hill tuition will rise by $750, which amounts to about an 18% increase, on top of an already announced $200 increase. Given that UNC was arguably one of the best educational bargains in the US, raising tuition seems a preferable option to making significant cuts in areas that would undoubtedly impact the caliber of education.</p>
<p>Most of the budgets haven’t been created yet. Just because the state has a budget shortfall doesn’t mean that its universities will take that big of a hit.</p>
<p>It’s all up to the legislators. Hopefully they will choose to prioritize education.</p>
<p>They won’t be closing down. They will simply raise prices and attract better paying customers, pretty much the first step in going private. As the funding and the aid shrink the process will continue. The top schools will still be cheaper than the top privates and will adjust their admissions to attract more out of state and international students. It will be easier for those students to get in. So for many out of state kids this is actually a good thing. Of course for middle class or lower instate American kids, it’s bad news.</p>
<p>Universities facing the downsizing of their budgets will probably opt to go with the Michigan model (only 7% of the budget is provided by the state, with the rest from private funding sources), in which the direction and funding of public schools become concentrated into private entities while remaining part of the public education system. Of course, given Berkeley’s large pedigree of graduate programs, there is a lot of pressure from some of the university’s departments (like Haas Business School and Boalt Law) to go private because those departments, along with others, will remain academically competitive and prosperous, or become even more so, if Berkeley goes into privatization. Very few schools have the academic prestige needed to survive without the backing of the state funding they receive, as public universities.</p>
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<p>Other states don’t have as much access to oil $$$.</p>
<p>I know that TX is having some issues with the education budget, considering all the changes in the UT schools and the continual rearranging of the community college boards. It’s really annoying me and I hope it doesn’t grow because I like our local colleges and universities.</p>
<p>It’s funny that VA has planned such budget cuts to public U’s.</p>
<p>[Especially</a> with this.](<a href=“http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-mcdonnell-surplus-2010,0,4108087.story]Especially”>http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-mcdonnell-surplus-2010,0,4108087.story)</p>
<p>Then again, there’s no mention of any of it going to Unis. Just “local school districts.” You would think they’d help out their top notch public U’s though. >></p>
<p>(Also, this is new news, so maybe some of the cuts will be cut in the new budget. We can only hope they don’t leave their colleges hanging.)</p>