Appropriations of State Tax Funds for Operating Expenses of Higher Education 1975-76.

This document is a collection of data summarizing state support for higher education. The figures show a wide variation among the states and an even wider variance among institutions. While it is impossible to eliminate all inconsistencies and accomplish absolute comparability among states and among insitutions, some uniformity is achieved by including only certain information. Information includes: (1) sums appropriated for the annual operating expenses of the institutions of higher education; (2) pre-allocated state taxes whose proceeds are dedicated to any institution of higher education; (3) wherever practical, separate appropriations for medical centers, agricultural experimental stations and cooperative agricultural extension services, off-campus outposts of universities or land-grant institutions; (4) sums derived from state tax funds and appropriated for state scholarships; and (5) only net state tax funds. The data are in preliminary form and subject to verification and change. (Author/KE)