See the States That Spend More on Incarceration than Higher Education
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
According to a study entitled Public Research Universities: Changes in State Funding, published by the American Academy for Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts spends $1 billion in higher education each year, 21st in the United States.
Meanwhile, the state spends millions more than that, $1.268 billion in total, on corrections. That puts them at 13th in the country.
That gives them the tenth largest disparity in the country, ahead of Connecticut and trailing states like Michigan (number one), Oregon (number two), Arizona (number three) and Rhode Island (number ninth). According to the Academy, the lack of funding can have major impacts on the U.S. and state economy in the future.
“The number of students who take degrees in the humanities provides one of the most fundamental indicators of the state of the field,” the Academy said. “Large changes in the numbers of those who choose undergraduate humanities majors can affect the ecology of higher education while an increase or decrease in the number of those completing advanced degrees in the humanities may signal tight job markets for new Ph.D.’s or warn of future shortages of teachers.”
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