Council of Trustees Handbook

www.HouseAppropriations.com/HDAPPROPS@hacd.net 717-783-1540 Higher Education: Primer March 25, 2022 - Page 12 This total includes all operating appropriations for community colleges, PASSHE, state-related universities, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, community education councils, regional community college services, and all appropriated PHEAA programs, but excludes community college capital, non-appropriated PHEAA business earnings, and other activities like the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school, agriculture-related transfers to Penn State, and medical school appropriations. Looking at appropriations trends over the years can be difficult because many different things have been grouped under “higher education” in the past. As time passed, the funding mechanisms have changed as well, with appropriations being moved to different departments and into special funds. To compare apples to apples, the following chart focuses on operational funding by excluding capital funding, agricultural support, PHEAA business earnings and medical-related appropriations. It includes federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act appropriations from 2008/09 through 2010/11 that supplemented operational funding. For the 2020/21 fiscal year, it includes federal Coronavirus Relief Fund appropriations allocated to higher education by the General Assembly, in 2021/22, federal American Rescue Plan appropriations for PASSHE. Amounts are in nominal dollars. State Related Universities, $597.1, 33.7% PASSHE, $477.5, 27.0% Federal American Rescue Plan - PASSHE, $50.0, 2.8% PHEAA State Grant Program, $310.7, 17.6% Community Colleges, $245.2, 13.9% Other, $44.7, 2.5% Institutional Assistance Grants, $26.5, 1.5% Thaddeus Stevens College, $18.7, 1.1% 2021/22 General Fund Higher Education Operating Appropriations Amounts in Millions

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