{"id":32888,"date":"2020-05-29T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=32888"},"modified":"2020-05-29T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:20:54","slug":"state-budget-cuts-put-oklahomas-higher-education-funding-back-in-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2020\/05\/29\/state-budget-cuts-put-oklahomas-higher-education-funding-back-in-the-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"State budget cuts put Oklahoma\u2019s higher education funding back in the 20th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 cuts to colleges have led to a state appropriation that\u2019s lower than it was in 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved an allocation Friday worth $770 million. Before the turn of the 21st century, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/education.illinoisstate.edu\/downloads\/grapevine\/historical\/Appropriations%202000-01.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during the 1999-2000 fiscal year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the system got $739 million from the state. And by 2001, two decades ago, its $814 million budget outpaces where the system is today.<\/span><\/p><p><iframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-gXUuJ\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"State allocation to Oklahoma's higher education system\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/gXUuJ\/1\/\" height=\"456\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var e in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-\"+e)||document.querySelector(\"iframe[src*='\"+e+\"']\");t&&(t.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][e]+\"px\")}}))}();\n<\/script><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oklahoma has consistently lagged behind the country after the 2008 recession. As colleges across the country saw an increase in state funds, Oklahoma lawmakers continued to cut the state\u2019s higher education budget.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 2015 and 2020, higher education funding from states rose by on average 18.8% which represents $15.3 billion total. In Oklahoma, funding fell 18.6% or $195 million, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/education.illinoisstate.edu\/grapevine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grapevine Survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, conducted by Illinois State University. The survey measures state support of colleges and universities nationwide.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oklahoma was one of only five states to see a decrease in that period.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuts shift costs of higher education onto students and that has led to tuition and fee growth that outpaces the rate of inflation nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 cuts to colleges have led to a state appropriation that\u2019s lower than it was in 2000.\u00a0The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved an allocation Friday worth $770 million. Before the turn of the 21st century, during the 1999-2000 fiscal year, the system got $739 million from the state. And by 2001, two decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":32559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1223,855,721,272,1089],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32892,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888\/revisions\/32892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}