Inside Alabama This Fall: Slate article

[Hibush]

When did the Alabama legislature decide to defund the University of Alabama system?  Was it during a state budget crisis, or did they just decide at some point that they didn't believe in funding the university system anymore?

After the Great Recession: see Figure IV-07c in this report.

Pennsylvania and (unsurprisingly) Louisiana are the other big losers in that period. Michigan and Colorado have been treated the same more recently.

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When did the Alabama legislature decide to defund the University of Alabama system?  Was it during a state budget crisis, or did they just decide at some point that they didn't believe in funding the university system anymore?

After the Great Recession: see Figure IV-07c in this report.

Pennsylvania and (unsurprisingly) Louisiana are the other big losers in that period. Michigan and Colorado have been treated the same more recently.

Thank you for the link!  Very interesting statistics there.  I knew that Louisiana had made drastic cuts in public funding for higher education, but not that Alabama had as well.  Those were some pretty drastic cuts.

[mythbuster]

Bama head coach Nick Saban has tested positive for Coronavirus. Between this and the Florida LSU game getting postponed, it's a bad week for the SEC.