Note: Tables on this web page were changed on January 19, 2010 to correct an error in our reporting of Vermont data for FY2010. We had not included appropriations for the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, thereby understating total state support for higher education in Vermont. We regret the error. -- Jim Palmer
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Since 1960, Grapevine has published annual compilations of data on state tax support for higher education, including general fund appropriations for universities, colleges, community colleges, and state higher education agencies. Each year’s Grapevine survey has asked states for tax appropriations data for the new fiscal year and for revisions (if any) to data reported in previous years.
This year marks a major change for Grapevine, which is now produced by Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy in cooperation with the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO). The Grapevine survey has been consolidated with the annual survey used by SHEEO in its State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) project. This consolidated questionnaire asks for data that are compiled in a new State Support for Higher Education database. This database, in turn, is used to produce both the annual Grapevine tables, which provide a first look at state appropriations for the new fiscal year, and the annual SHEF report, which offers a more complete examination of trends in total state support for higher education, factoring in inflation and enrollment. The SHEF report for FY2009 will be released shortly.
The results of the Grapevine survey for fiscal year 2009-10 (FY10), including both tax and nontax monies, are compiled in the national tables now available on this website. The data for FY10 were reported to SHEEO by the states from September through December 2009 and are subject to change as states adjust their budgets in the face of ongoing revenue shortfalls. Unlike previous Grapevine reports, the data from the survey for FY10 include only state totals. The new, consolidated questionnaire does not ask states to provide appropriations figures for individual colleges and universities.
Further information on the results of the FY10 Grapevine survey can be found in the press release issued by the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University and in an accompanying statement by SHEEO president Paul E. Lingenfelter (“A Critical Juncture for Higher Education in the United States”).
Thank you for your interest in Grapevine. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Jim Palmer
Grapevine Editor
January 18, 2010