State higher education budgets rebound

State spending on US higher education is up, after years of cuts, but public colleges are not yet receiving as much in appropriations as they were before the recession, writes Ry Rivard for Inside Higher Ed.

In the current budget year, which began for most states last July, 40 states increased funding for public colleges, according to the annual Grapevine report released by the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University and the State Higher Education Executive Officers. Overall, state funding for higher education is up 5.7% in the current budget year. That's a significant turnaround from just two years ago, when state funding dropped by nearly 8%. A recovery of sorts began in most states in the previous budget cycle, when 31 states increased funding.
Full report on the Inside Higher Ed site