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? Hiaher education %0 * tt M I as siaies cut oa By College Press Service States are cutting back on support for higher education, and the outlook is gloomy, an analyst who studies how state legislatures fund colleges said. Legislatures ought to consider closing w some state colleges in order to save others, ^ said Steven Gold, who analyzes government financing for the National Conference on State Legislatures. In South Carolina. Gov. Dick Rilev has been campaigning to improve primary and secondary education, but higher education is not included in his education proposals. Riley's plan calls for a penny increase in the state sales tax, predicted to generate about $200 million. Members of the Commission of Higher Education and two top state officials have recommended Riley use some of the tax ^ revenue to improve the state's higher education. Tax cuts and the recession have forced many states to slow the growth in the amount of money spent on colleges, Gold said. As a result, Gold said he sees cutbacks on public campuses and schools charging students higher tuition to help compensate for the cutbacks. "With the number of college graduates expected to decrease in most states and with the fiscal outlook fairly gloomy," Gold said, "I think higher education will continue to take lumps in most states." I . ithe ma 940 HA (ACROSS FR 79' include: u Contact Lens of South ( r-% / w? 4. i rx. r- rx % ?/ hAILINUtU W CONTACT LE Modern contact lens techr j developed a soft contact lens worn for as long as 30 da removal. The Optical Sh( CZr\ 0/ onnnlr UU /o uI I ui I oui lyic CALL FOR OUR BO AND FREE TEST YOURSEL 3519 Medical Drive ! Columbia, S.C. 29203 # Phone: 779-8950 i outlook gloomy ck, analyst says But the man on whose research Gold bases his nroenosis disaortes stronftlv. "The implication that (state funding of colleges) is about to fall on its face is simply wrong," said M.M. Chambers, an Mlionois State University professor who compiles higher education funding statistics from all the states. "There has been no cutback," he said. "The rate of growth (of funding) has declined by 2 percent, compared with the prior two-year period. But we've always had gains. The net gain has been 11 to 12 percent in the past two years." Chambers said the rate of growth in state funding of higher education has been slowing since the 1960s, when state funding increased by 40 percent in one period. But Gold said the long-term decline will continue "partly due to the fact that most states cut their taxes in the wake of the tax revolt" and a depressing effect of the recession on state revenues. Althoueh manv states have oassed in creases in the last year, "the tax increases of 1983 in general are less than the tax cuts that preceded them," he said. He said the relationship between taxes and personal income is "still lower than it was five years ago." 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