Zumeta Contributes Foreword for Most Recent American Educational Research Association Publication
Posted: 2023-04-30 18:15:11 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Bill Zumeta wrote the Foreword for the most recent volume on Volatility in State Spending for Higher Education from the American Educational Research Association entitled “Foreword: Public Higher Education Must Broaden Its Responses to Salvage Its Public Mission,” pp. xi-xxv. The piece was adapted (and updated) from a keynote address he gave at an AERA-sponsored conference with the same name as the book’s title. The original conference was held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on June 4-5, 2018. The funding volatility issue is a serious and perennial one affecting public higher education, which tends to suffer more than other state-supported functions from budget cuts when states experience revenue declines during and after recessions (or pandemics). The volume contains a number of research studies of relevant factors and policy proposals. Bill’s contribution is an introductory essay on the research and policy challenges.