Abstract
- The study explores whether certain types of geopolitical risk contribute to shifts in U.S. higher education spending across time.
- Information is drawn from Iacoviello and Tong’s (2026) database, which scores newspapers for various forms of geopolitical risk tied to the United States using Artificial Intelligence (AI) keyword-matching procedures.
- Time series statistical analyses evaluate how changes in geopolitical risk relate to changes in higher education spending.
- The initial results indicate that when there is an increase in geopolitical risk where the United States is the direct target of geopolitical risk where it may respond to the threat or the performance of a hostile act, there is a significant and positive increase in U.S. higher education spending. There is a potential connection. between global affairs and domestic higher education spending in the U.S. that warrants continued study.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Christopher Olds
Department/Program
Political Science
Submission Type
in-person poster
Date
4-13-2026
Rights
Copyright the Author(s)
Recommended Citation
Bechle, Daniel
(2026)
"Guns, Blood, and Textbooks? Geopolitical Risk and U.S. Higher Education Spending,"
SACAD: Scholarly Activities: Vol. 2026, Article 71.
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sacad/vol2026/iss2026/71
