{"id":2632,"date":"2012-01-24T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2012-01-24T21:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:36:28","slug":"wisconsin-ranks-third-among-states-for-higher-education-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Ranks Third Among States for Higher Education Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources are reporting the news that Wisconsin ranks third in the nation for cuts to public higher education. The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/grapevine.illinoisstate.edu\/index.shtml\">Grapevine study<\/a>, conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/centereducationpolicy.illinoisstate.edu\/\">Illinois State University&#8217;s Center for the Study of Education Policy<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheeo.org\/\">State Higher Education Executive Officers<\/a>, found that public funding for higher education in the state fell nearly 21 percent &#8212; from $1.46 billion to $1.15 billion. That figure does not include the additional $46.1 million lapse cut announced last fall. Only two states had larger cuts &#8212; Arizona and New Hampshire. Nationally, the average cut was 7.6 percent, with 9 states increasing their state funding for higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Links to articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/news\/137967563.html\">Cuts at Wisconsin universities rank third in nation, study says<\/a>; <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/education\/campus_connection\/campus-connection-wisconsin-among-national-leaders-in-defunding-higher-education\/article_7baa1d86-4617-11e1-9bf6-0019bb2963f4.html\">Wisconsin among national leaders in defunding higher education<\/a>;<em> The Capital Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/State-Support-For-Higher\/130414\/?sid=pm&amp;utm_source=pm&amp;utm_medium=en\">State support for colleges falls 7.6 % in 2012 fiscal year<\/a>; <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2012\/01\/23\/state-funds-higher-education-fell-76-2011-12\">State support slumps again<\/a>; <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources are reporting the news that Wisconsin ranks third in the nation for cuts to public higher education. The annual Grapevine study, conducted by Illinois State University&#8217;s Center for the Study of Education Policy and the State Higher Education&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2632\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","category-the-state","tag-higher-education-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}