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Higher education's expansive role in our society & economy is severely under-appreciated. The COVID crisis & reductions in state support threaten our public hi ed system & therefore our country's well-being. @ProfGamecock & I discuss this & solutions: https://medium.com/@SHEEOed/covid-19-crisis-reveals-overdue-need-for-new-way-to-fund-higher-education-ae3af8c55931 1/n
This post is one within a series that @SHEEOed staff have published on the the COVID crisis, the critical role of the state in hi ed, & the necessity of state funding. In my memory, SHEEO has never beat a single drum this loud before. I hope folks will listen. Here they are: 2/n
We normally publish SHEF without commentary. However, for the second time in the history of SHEF SHEEO president @HigherEd_Rob provided a SHEF editorial. In it he raised the alarm on the decades long trend in state support & the COVID cliff facing hied https://shef.sheeo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SHEEO_SHEF_FY19_Editorial.pdf 3/n
Next @HigherEd_Rob published an op-ed in @washingtonpost which took things a step further in articulating the critical role of public hi ed and why we need a significant investment of federal dollars to preserve public hi ed during this COVID crisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/05/05/why-public-colleges-universities-which-educate-nearly-75-percent-students-need-help-congress-now/
. @HigherEd_Rob then articulated an intellectual foundation for why states, and specially SHEEO agencies and system offices, are so critical. The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. New federal $ to public hied through states is needed. https://mailchi.mp/sheeo/sheeo-member-news-april-2741696
. @tlharnisch then built on @HigherEd_Rob's writing and further developed the argument for why the next round of federal stimulus $ should included $ directed to states for their public institutions (rather than only $ directly to institutions). https://higherlearningadvocates.org/2020/06/10/for-the-next-stimulus-package-direct-aid-to-states-for-public-higher-education/
Finally @ProfGamecock & I dig into what public hied does in our country, why public investment is so critical & what is at risk if we don't reinvest. We call for major stimulus funding & an on-going federal-state partnership for the funding of public hied https://medium.com/@SHEEOed/covid-19-crisis-reveals-overdue-need-for-new-way-to-fund-higher-education-ae3af8c55931
In these series of publications we have attempted to raise the alarm and provide an intellectual foundation for our thinking about the role of states and state funding in hied. It is hard to conceive of all that could be lost in the current crisis. Please give them a read. END
