Resources and insights to support professionals working across the education sector
Mapping the College Affordability Landscape: A Typology of State Strategies
Mapping the College Affordability Landscape: A Typology of State Strategies is the first-comprehensive mapping of affordability policies across all 50-states and Washington, D.C. This research shows 1,241 strategies—and average of 24 per state—and found that now two states are approaching affordability in the same way.
The Balanced Framework for State Higher Education Finance Policy Series
Introducing the Balanced Framework, a signature contribution to HCM’s higher education finance policy work and the first in a new paper series on state funding reform. The framework is designed to help state leaders rethink how higher education is funded—and valued.
Incentivizing High-Priority Degrees: The Role of State Funding
Incentivizing High-Priority Degrees: The Role of State Funding is the second brief in HCM’s policy series examining pressing issues in state funding formulas and their impact on value, adequacy, and equity. This series provides frameworks, research, and case studies examining how the role of state funding can advance state priorities and equitable student outcomes while reflecting states’ unique contexts.
Framing the College Affordability Problem
College affordability is an issue that weighs heavily on many people’s minds. And it should. There was a recent story about a public official who was concerned about college affordability. He said he could relate to students who struggle to pay for college because less than 10 years after leaving graduate school, he was still paying off debt for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. From Harvard.