{"id":490,"date":"2006-03-22T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=490"},"modified":"2006-03-22T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T16:18:17","slug":"funding-fudges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Funding fudges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/EDUCATION\/03\/22\/colleges.funding.ap\/index.html?section=cnn_education\">CNN<\/a> reports, state funding for higher ed has continued to decline as a proportion of total revenues. This is why claims about &#8220;educational inflation&#8221; being higher than general inflation is misleading&#151;it&#8217;s true for <em>tuition<\/em> costs but not all costs; it&#8217;s true for some elite institutions but not the bulk; and it neatly avoids the public disinvestment in higher education. Fortunately, the students at <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/03\/21\/commission\">yesterday&#8217;s open hearing<\/a> of the Spellings Commission gave the members an earful on that front.<br \/>\nHere in Florida, the governor&#8217;s budget proposed virtually no increase in state higher ed funding despite a record revenue windfall for the state and enrollments that are bursting the seams of both the universities and the community colleges.  I forget who first told me the quip that universities are the first to be cut and the last to be helped, but it&#8217;s certainly been true in our state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CNN reports, state funding for higher ed has continued to decline as a proportion of total revenues. This is why claims about &#8220;educational inflation&#8221; being higher than general inflation is misleading&#151;it&#8217;s true for tuition costs but not all costs; it&#8217;s true for some elite institutions but not the bulk; and it neatly avoids the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-7U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}