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In the five years following 2008, state appropriation support for the median public research university declined by more than 26 percent, according a report released Wednesday by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The report found that states spend twice as much on Medicaid as they do on higher education, and that in 11 states spending on corrections surpassed higher education spending.
"Public research universities play a critical role in the American economy, and in the lives of millions of Americans," said Kay Bailey Hutchison, former United States senator from Texas and member of the AAAS Lincoln Project, which authored the report. "Yet in state budgets, higher education competes for resources in areas that are either difficult or impossible to cut."
