Coping with Recession - Public Policy, Economic Downturns and Higher Education


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	Executive Summary

	Introduction

	The Context: State Budgeting and Higher Education's Vulnerability

	The Continuing Battle to Sustain Current Support for Higher Education

	Recent Experience: The Recession of the Early 1990s

	What's Different?

	Unprecedented Enrollment Growth

	The Tuition Conundrum

	Student Support

	Concluding Observation

	References

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Coping with Recession:

Public Policy, Economic Downturns
and Higher Education

By Patrick M. Callan

February 2002

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

THE CONTEXT: STATE BUDGETING AND HIGHER EDUCATION VULNERABILITY

THE CONTINUING BATTLE TO SUSTAIN CURRENT SUPPORT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

RECENT EXPERIENCE: THE RECESSION OF THE EARLY 1990s

WHAT'S DIFFERENT?

UNPRECEDENTED ENROLLMENT GROWTH

THE TUITION CONUNDRUM

STUDENT SUPPORT

CONCLUDING OBSERVATION

REFERENCES

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