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Many public college and university leaders will enter the new decade with some hope and confidence in the policy arena, with the tailwinds of a strong national economy, healthier state budgets and state political environments more conducive to investments in higher education. This report examines the most prominent state higher education policy issues for 2020. This report not only includes topics of longstanding concern to state policymakers but also emerging issues that will be new to the state legislatures. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Public college and university leaders will enter a more optimistic state policy landscape in 2019, stemming from strong state revenue forecasts and a new class of political leaders who campaigned on proposals to expand college access, enhance college affordability and address workforce development needs. However, intense competition for state resources, continued concern over appropriate policy responses to state demographic shifts, and growing anxiety over market volatility and the prospect of an economic downturn will temper this optimism. In this regard, this report points out some higher education state policy issues for 2019. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) ; Policy Matters

Public college and university leaders will enter a state policy landscape in 2018 marked by more political uncertainty than any time in recent memory. The immediate driver of state-level uncertainty is the overhaul of the federal tax code signed by President Donald Trump in late 2017. This report provides a review of higher education policy issues that legislators and governors are mostly likely to discuss. This 11th annual assessment of state higher education policy issues includes a mix of new issuessuch as federal policy changesand longstanding policy debates, such as budgets, guns on campus, performance funding and immigration. Newspaper articles, economic forecasts, gubernatorial addresses, and the 2017 state legislative sessions informed this analysis. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)