The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: research literature review and policy recommendations
Over the past three decades policymakers have been seeking new ways to secure improved performance from higher education institutions. One popular approach has been performance funding, which involves use of a formula to tie funding to institutional performance on specified indicators. This report reviews findings from studies on performance funding programs in a multitude of states. The studies suggest that tying funding to outputs has immediate impacts on colleges in the form of changes in funding, greater awareness by institutions of state priorities and of their own institutional performan ... Show more
Authors: Dougherty, Kevin J.; Reddy, Vikash
Published: New York, New York, Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 64 p.
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