<p>"The turnaround began last year, when 32 states increased funding to public colleges and universities for the current academic year, up from 17 states the year before, according to data from an annual survey by Illinois State University. Many of those increases were modest: Ten states lifted higher-education funding by less than 1%. It isn't yet clear how many states will increase funding for the coming academic year because many haven't yet completed their budgets."</p>
<p>States</a> Raise College Budgets After Years of Deep Cuts - WSJ.com</p>
<p>It appears that you need a subscription to read the linked article.</p>
<p>Hmmm. I found the article linked from Google and clicked on it and it showed up. Perhaps the WSJ allows you to read it if it’s linked from Google.</p>
<p>I’m not getting the article to come up from anywhere - even my own google search. However, with increases as low as implied and cuts as deep as shown in the other thread - or here:</p>
<p>[States</a> Raise College Budgets After Years Of Deep Cuts and related news :: BizNewsIndex.com](<a href=“http://biznewsindex.com/news/states-raise-college-budgets-after-years-of-deep-cuts]States”>http://biznewsindex.com/news/states-raise-college-budgets-after-years-of-deep-cuts)</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s going to help much too quickly. At least it wouldn’t be more loss, but some of those increases don’t appear to even be keeping up with inflation.</p>
<p>I’d guess that more students are being served too.</p>
<p>Son went through four years of state university with double-digit increases every year as the state budgets were cut every year. Increasing state budgets may not be keeping up with inflation and with increasing student loads but it’s better than heading down.</p>