Funding Public Colleges and Universities for Performance: Popularity, Problems, and Prospects (Rockefeller Institute Press) - Softcover

9780914341963: Funding Public Colleges and Universities for Performance: Popularity, Problems, and Prospects (Rockefeller Institute Press)
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Looks at the progress, popularity, and problems related to states linking funding of public colleges and universities to performance.

This is the first comprehensive study of performance funding of public colleges and universities, which directly ties some state allocations to institutional results on designated indicators. The book examines performance funding as a national phenomenon, identifying the champions and critics of the program, the arguments for and against its adoption, the most common performance measures used for funding, the characteristics that separate stable from unstable initiatives, and the inherent possibilities and problems.

The authors include case studies of performance funding in Tennessee, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, and South Carolina, and explore the reasons why Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, and Minnesota first adopted and later abandoned their programs. They examine problems with performance funding, such as the reluctance of the academic community to agree on reasonable goals for undergraduate education or the failure to apply performance funding to the academic departments that are mostly responsible for institutional results on many of the performance indicators. The contributors conclude that although the future of performance funding remains cloudy, one aspect is becoming clear―taxpayers are unlikely to continue to accept the proposition that performance should count in all endeavors except state funding for higher education.

Contributors include E. Grady Brogue, Joseph C. Burke, Juan C. Copa, Patrick Dallet, Terri Lessard, Gary Moden, Dr. Robert B. Stein, Michael Williford, and David J. Wright.

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This is the first comprehensive study of performance funding of public colleges and universities, which directly ties some state allocations to institutional results on designated indicators. The book examines performance funding as a national phenomenon, identifying the champions and critics of the program, the arguments for and against its adoption, the most common performance measures used for funding, the characteristics that separate stable from unstable initiatives, and the inherent possibilities and problems. The authors include case studies of performance funding in Tennessee, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, and South Carolina, and explore the reasons why Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, and Minnesota first adopted and later abandoned their programs. They examine problems with performance funding, such as the reluctance of the academic community to agree on reasonable goals for undergraduate education or the failure to apply performance funding to the academic departments that are mostly responsible for institutional results on many of the performance indicators. The contributors conclude that although the future of performance funding remains cloudy, one aspect is becoming clear-taxpayers are unlikely to continue to accept the proposition that performance should count in all endeavors except state funding for higher education.
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Joseph C. Burke was a campus President, Provost, and Interim Chancellor of the State University of New York system and is currently Director of the Rockefeller Institute’s Higher Education Program.

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  • PublisherDistribution Partners
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0914341960
  • ISBN 13 9780914341963
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages323

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