<p>States</a> cut aid to college students as demand booms - Yahoo! News</p>
<p>At least a dozen states are reducing award sizes, eliminating grants and tightening eligibility guidelines because of a lack of money. At the same time, the number of students seeking aid is rising sharply as more people seek a college education and need help paying the tuition bill because they or their parents lost jobs and savings during the recession.</p>
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<p>The article didn't mention it but MA raised fees this year to provide more financial aid. Most of those increases will be rebated due to stimulus money but that runs out at some point.</p>
<p>Is there a way to find out which states? The article doesn’t say?</p>
<p>I think the University System of Maryland (UMCP, UMBC, Towson, etc., etc.) has to cut $148M from its next FY budget. One way they’ll offset the cuts is by lifting the in-state tuition freeze we’ve had for the last 4 years. </p>
<p>I haven’t heard specific news about FA. Capital cuts, RIFs by attrition and increased tuition seem to be the strategy. (I’m sure another Marylander will correct me if I’m wrong.) </p>
<p>Oh, and let’s not forget the anecdotal reports about Maryland schools favoring OOS apps in recent years due to their higher revenue.</p>
<p>We are not from Maryland, but my daughter is going to an oos college, and back in May (when she received confirmation of a scholarship), I phoned the school to ask why it was so little, and the school replied that they cut all scholarships amount to be able to give to more students. So I guess this college was ahead of the news article.
What I mean is that some states are already doing it, so there sould be no more cuts.</p>
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<p>Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Mass, Illinois, and California are the only ones I’ve read about. Doesn’t seem to add to a dozen, does it? Anyone else know of significant cuts?</p>
<p>I am assuming Tennessee and Kentucky, but that was a while back. That is what I mean, does the article reports recent news or is it old news? Could they not have mentionned which states?</p>
<p>I looked for similar articles and a contact for the author but didn’t find anything.</p>
<p>Tennessee seems to be increasing aid as a flood of demand turns up for higher ed services.</p>
<p>This article has a chart of funding cuts by state (from June, so may not include recent cuts). It’s a bit misleading though as many of these states did not cut student aid but cut faculty and other costs or increased tuition. I think the tuition increases like MD and NY were probably inevitable - there are only so many years that they can hold tuition at a flat rate.</p>
<p>[An</a> Update on State Budget Cuts — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities](<a href=“http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1214]An”>http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1214)</p>