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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."
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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."
As a result, "the prognosis is not very
bright," he said.
With less money to spend, Gold said
school closings ought to be considered. "In
many states, we don't need the number of institutions
that we have now by a long shot."
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