News Rewritten
State
Funding Reduced In Higher Education
As the recession yet not recovered and
federal stimulus money ended, state funding for higher education has reduced.
From a recent study it is known that total
state funding for higher education has increased only in nine states ,
where federal stimulus money also included. Rest of the 41 states are suffering
from the reduction in various percentage- started from 1 percent in North Carolina to
41 percent in New Hampshire.
As the federal money ended
the fund allotment declined about 20 percent
or more in the hardest-hit states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Louisiana.
In
the annual Grapevine study for the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University,
mentioned that funding reduced nearly 8
percent , amounting about $6 billion in average statistics. When the money lost
from the end of the American Reinvestment and tax revenue decreases, funding capacity of state for higher education
reduced .
The
National Science Board also reported the same information about reduction last
week. They said
that nearly three-quarter of the nations 101 public research universities are suffering
from state fund reducing from 2002 to 2010.
Chairwoman of the National Science Board committee that produced the report and vice president for academic affairs at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Jose-Marie Griffiths mentioned its severe ness and expressed concern about the uncertainty of the future. In board report it was noted that the reduction will influence the education which will prepare the workforce to compete in a globalized, knowledge-based economy.
Chairwoman of the National Science Board committee that produced the report and vice president for academic affairs at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Jose-Marie Griffiths mentioned its severe ness and expressed concern about the uncertainty of the future. In board report it was noted that the reduction will influence the education which will prepare the workforce to compete in a globalized, knowledge-based economy.
The State Higher Education Executive Officers
Association said in a statement that state reduction will increase the tuition fees and create more
pressure to recruit out-of-state students. It will create frustration about
higher education to those students who need financial support. It will lessen
student’s access to the training of being workforce in those states.
According
to the specified report of the group, California
has been getting 26 percent of national decline over the past two years which
is amounting $1.5. Over the past five years the reduction percentage of Florida is 17.5 and it depends
nearly 50 percent of its budget on tuition fees. It is getting reduced state financing
for last 10 years. Florida
is adjusting the deficits by merging departments, instituting hiring freezes
and using temporary professors.
In
science and engineering degrees US has been trailing Asia.
In 2008 fifty-six percent degrees were awarded to Asia and only 4 percent in the
U.S..
In the fields of natural science and engineering, 248,000 graduates turn out
from US. In China
the quantity is 1 million. It is a sticking change from 2000, when they
produced 280,000. From South Korea,
Taiwan and Japan come out 330,000 natural science and
engineering graduates in 2008 , These are bigger numbers than the U.S., even though
their population is not larger as like as US.
Palmer
said that the aspiration for higher education exceeded the vitality of US
economy right now. That is, to reach the target there is no support of state
funding.
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