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May 25, 2023

For the first time, state funding to public colleges exceeds per-student funding levels seen prior to the Great Recession

The latest State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report finds that in 2022, public higher education appropriations increased 4.9% beyond inflation, surpassing pre-recession per-student funding levels for the first time since 2008. The SHEF report also finds that fiscal year 2022 saw the second largest public FTE enrollment decline since the start of the SHEF dataset in 1980, and tuition revenue continued to decline. After a short recession in 2020 due…

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December 20, 2018

Dennis Olson Jr. Named New SHEEO of Minnesota Higher Education Office

by Brian Bakst

To head the state office of higher education, Walz named Dennis Olson, the executive director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and a former director of Indian Education at the education department. The other finalists were former state Sens. Terri Bonoff and Steve Kelley, both DFLers who represented suburban districts.

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December 19, 2018

SHEEO Member eNews: December 2018

by Ben Cannon, Executive Director Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission

As we near legislative sessions in many of our states, higher education finance will be a frequent topic of conversation. SHEEO has informed this dialogue for 15 years with our State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report. This report seeks to broaden our understanding of the state higher education finance landscape in an effort to inform effective policy decisions at the state and federal level.

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December 19, 2018

University of Maine System Chancellor Page Retiring End of June

by Eesha Pendharkar, BDN Staff

When James Page took the helm of Maine’s university system, student enrollment was declining and the state’s public universities faced sizable, long-term deficits. Seven years later, Page will step down at a time when enrollment has stabilized — and even grown on some campuses — and the system’s long-term deficits have disappeared.

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November 27, 2018

SHEEO Member eNews: November 2018

by Antoinette Mitchell, Assistant Superintendent of Postsecondary and Career Education

One thing the election season guarantees is change. Some of us are heartened by the outcomes of any given election while others are discouraged. I was recently asked by a reporter to prognosticate what this change might mean for higher education policy. The question was asked with a particular political lens in mind, but what it led me to consider is my firm conviction that both parties ultimately want to…

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November 1, 2018

William L. Roper Named Interim President of UNC System

by University of North Carolina System

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors announced today that UNC Health Care CEO and Dean of the UNC School of Medicine Dr. William L. Roper has been named interim president of the UNC System, effective January 1, 2019. Dr. Roper also serves as vice-chancellor for Medical Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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