Chuck Allen, a member of the University of South Carolina’s board of trustees and a former state lawmaker, struggles with this issue every day.
“Our state is currently 43rd in the nation in per capita income and 43rd in the nation in its percentage of citizens with four-year degrees,” Allen says. “The correlation is obvious: higher education affects economic development and the household income of our citizens.”
A recent study found that South Carolina had cut higher education spending more than any state in the union ”” or the Confederacy. As a result, our in-state tuition rates are the highest in the Southeast.
Yeah, just get your ticket punched and everything will be hunky-dory.