Ask anyone who works at a public college or university about the impact of state support (or lack thereof), and they have stories to tell: of raises lost, of furloughs, of programs being eliminated and of positions frozen.
Hereâ??s a new measure of how bad it is: The researchers who produce the definitive annual study of state appropriations for higher education are being forced today to release data they know understate (in some cases significantly) the extent of the cuts.