Relationships between economic, political, demographic, and educational climate variables and state appropriations to research I universities
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2021
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Frantz, Rebecca L., author
Kuk, Linda, advisor
Bajtelsmit, Vickie, committee member
Gloeckner, Gene, committee member
Hughes, Rodney, committee member
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Higher education appropriations have been a widely studied topic by researchers and became more of a concern after the Great Recession. Assessing factors influencing appropriations to Research I institutions is of particular interest as they possess substantial enrollment capabilities but can create great inequities and access issues without state subsidization (Weerts & Ronca, 2006). Two measures of appropriations were crafted using data from the Integrated Post Secondary Data System (IPEDS) for two year and above institutions from 2010 to 2015. Using fixed effects modeling, a series of twelve independent variables across four different categories (economic, political, demographic, and educational climate) were evaluated for predictive power on appropriations. Submodels where constructed on a set of the sample only including Research I institutions. A number of statistically significant effects on appropriations were found in the results and were largely consistent with findings in past research (Tandberg & Griffith, 2013). The largest statistically significant R2 value was found in need to pay overall model. When focusing on this research project's focus evaluating factors influencing appropriations at Research I institutions both Income Disparity (β=-161.951, p<.05) and Citizen Ideology (β=85.50, p<.01) stood out in the results with notable effect sizes. Personal income, citizen ideology, and tuition were significant in three of the four regression models.
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fixed effects
recession
public finance
appropriations