Paul E. Lingenfelter
President Emeritus, State Higher Education Executive Officers
(Formerly Vice President, MacArthur Foundation and Deputy Director, Illinois Board of Higher Education)
State Funding for Higher Education
A 2018 article in Change Magazine analyzes trends in public support since World War II; a 2006 speech summarizes both the case for public funding and what higher education needs to do to justify greater support; the annual SHEEO State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) study begun in 2003 provides both an historical perspective and current information.
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“The Flow and Ebb of Public Support for Higher Education in America,” as published in Change Magazine, 2018
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“The Unfunding of Higher Education???” Baruch College, CUNY speech, March 2006.
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State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) study. (First published in 2004 by the staff of SHEEO, building on work by Kent Halstead in the 1990s. Published annually.
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Higher Education Budgeting ​ My study of higher education budgeting began in 1972 with my doctoral dissertation, "The Politics of Higher Education Appropriations in Three Midwestern States." The following articles reflect my experience since that time.
"Public Systems and the Financing of Postsecondary Education" Chapter 4 in Public University Systems: Leveraging Scale in Higher Education. Edited by James R. Johnsen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2024.
“Budgeting for Higher Education: An Art, Not a Science.” (In Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy) pp. 658-662
“Why Does Performance Budgeting Under-Perform?” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning in Volume 53, Issue 3, 2021
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Budgeting for Higher Education in Illinois
From 1970 to 2000 Illinois Board of Higher Education in collaboration with institutional leaders developed and employed analytical tools to achieve equitable funding among institutions, student aid policies that achieved affordable access and choice to students, and strategies to enhance productivity and quality. The National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education’s project Measuring Up 2000 gave Illinois the highest overall grade in the nation for participation, preparation, completion, affordability, and state benefit in higher education. Oral histories from this period have been collected in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
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Richard Wagner: Illinois Board of Higher Education staff, 1969 -1998, Executive Director 1980-1998
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Paul Lingenfelter: Illinois Board of Higher Education staff, 1974 to 1985, Deputy Director 1980-1985. Later Vice President MacArthur Foundation and President of State Higher Education Executive Officers
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Tom Layzell: Illinois Board of Higher Education staff, 1966 to 1969, later Chancellor of Illinois Board of Governors and state higher education executive in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Louisiana
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Kathleen Kelly: Illinois Board of Higher Education Staff, 1984 to 1999, ended service as Deputy Director for Academic Affairs.
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Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw: Chancellor of Southern Illinois University system 1979 to 1985, later President of the University of Wisconsin System and of Syracuse University.
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