State Policy

The split between need-based and non-need-based grants remained the same year over year in 2015-16.

For every $1,000 cut from per-student state and local appropriations, the average student can be expected to pay $257 more per year in tuition and fees -- and the rate is rising.

It is important to ask crucial funding questions about such plans now, argues Bob Samuels.

But avoid legislation that would cap bachelor’s degree programs and create new oversight board.

Against a tide of pro-gun rulings and legislation, a state appeals court ruled 2 to 1 that the University of Michigan -- a public institution -- has the right to ban guns on campus.

Report suggests state-federal partnership to keep student loan payments at or under 10 percent of graduates’ income and estimates cost of doing so.

In several states, proposals seek to curb or end expensive grant programs that aren’t going to those who are most in need.

Support for public higher education rose in 33 states and declined in 17 in 2016 -- including a massive drop in Illinois.