Performance funding for higher education
Seeking greater accountability in higher education, many states have adopted performance funding, tying state financial support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance based on specific outcomes such as student retention, progression, and graduation. Now in place in over t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press
[2016]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4054395x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Widespread adoption of performance funding ; The different forms of performance funding ; Conceptualizing how performance funding works ; Chapter contents and preview of findings
- Research perspectives, questions, and methods. Existing scholarship on the impacts of performance funding and its limitations ; Enlisting insights from other bodies of literature ; Conceptual framework ; Research questions ; Research methods
- Policy instruments and their immediate impacts. Financial incentives ; Communication of state program goals and methods ; Communication of institutional performance on the state metrics ; Building up institutional capacity to respond to performance funding ; Disaggregating our main patterns ; Summary and conclusions
- Organizational learning in response to performance funding. Deliberative processes used to respond to performance funding ; Variations in deliberative processes ; Aids and hindrances to deliberation ; Variations in aids and hindrances ; Summary and conclusions
- Changes to institutional policies, programs, and practices. Perceptions about the impact of performance funding ; Changes in academic policies, practices, and programs ; Student services changes ; Isomorphism and the institutionalization of campus changes ; Disaggregating our main patterns ; Summary and conclusions
- Student outcomes. Descriptive data ; Multivariate study findings ; Summary and conclusions
- Obstacles to effective response. Student-body composition ; inappropriate performance funding measures ; Insufficient institutional capacity ; Insufficient state funding of higher education ; Institutional resistance to performance funding ; Insufficient knowledge of performance funding ; Variations within our main findings ; Summary and conclusions
- Unintended impacts of performance funding. Restrictions of student admission ; Weakening of academic standards ; Compliance costs ; Reduced institutional cooperation ; Lower faculty and staff morale ; Less faculty voice in academic governance ; Narrowing of institutional mission ; Variations within our main findings ; Summary and conclusions
- Summary and conclusions. Key findings ; Implications for policy ; Implications for research ; Concluding thoughts
- Appendixes. A. The nature and history of performance funding in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee ; B. Interview protocol for state officials ; C. Interview protocol for university administrators and faculty.
