New paper on state higher education funding approaches with @InformEdStates' @rkelchen @bakerdphd @JustinOrtagus @LitchMingo in @AeraOpen (1/N) journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… States broadly support higher ed primarily through appropriations to public colleges that can be used to maintain relatively low tuition levels & funds for financial aid to reduce prices for students (2/N)

Excited to share new work w/ fantastic collaborators @katharinemeyer @AnnenbergInst & Jialing Wang @PSU_EdPolicy on administrative burden in statewide free college programs in @Journal_BPA journal-bpa.org/index.php/jbpa… (1/N) Over the last decade+, a large body of research has examined the complex federal financial aid system that deters many eligible students from receiving aid