Over the past few decades, public universities have faced significant declines in state
funding per student. We investigate whether these declines affected the educational and …

No empirical studies have attempted to explain why states invest differentially in their
research and in their non-research universities, although these differences hold important …

Over the past two decades, state financing of higher education has declined as a share of
personal income. State appropriations have fallen from an average of roughly $8.50 per …

This study investigates whether public universities respond to declines in state
appropriations by increasing nonresident freshman enrollment. State higher education …

Ehrenberg, 2006; Hearn, 2006; Heller, 2001). Analysts have warned, however, that while
there are many potential benefits to the new entrepreneurialism in higher education, state …

A stochastic cost frontier with inefficiency effects is estimated to investigate the impacts of
decreases in state funding support on the operating efficiency of public colleges and …

State governments and public colleges and universities have a symbiotic relationship.
Public higher education institutions play an important role in creating an educated citizenry …

This trend in state appropriations can substantially alter the distribution of resources across
institutions of higher education. To date, most of the attention has focused on the growing …

The number of international undergraduate students at US public research universities
increased dramatically over the past two decades, alongside concurrent reductions in state …

States invest in public higher education in two primary ways: through direct funds to
institutions (general operating support) and direct funds to students in the form of state …