What Lags Well Behind Recovery to Full Employment? State Funding for Higher Ed!

Plesae scroll down to your SCUP Link, below this notice about SCUP–45.

Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.

Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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SCUP's Board of Directors met in Ann Arbor last weekend. The meeting kicked off with a presentation by Dennis Jones (of NCHEMS) highlighting the very serious financial position higher education institutions are in, especially public institutions. As Jones put it, we all know that unemployment is a lagging indicator. And collection of state sales taxes lags unemployment recovery. Plus, funding from the state for higher education lags increased state revenues and is simultaneously fighting with other state entities for a share of that budget. Mix into that, that financial-institution-based recessions are the slowest to recover, and the picture for higher ed indicates a slow recovery, and maybe never a full recovery in terms of state funding. As The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, it seems as though Standard & Poors agrees.

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SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:

• May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
• July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
• October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
• January 21–22, Tempe, AZ - Step II and Step III