The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education : Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations /

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"Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement. The theory is that introducing market-like forces will prod institutions to become more...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dougherty, Kevin James
Other Authors: Natow, Rebecca S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > Finance.
Government aid to higher education.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Aide de l'État à l'enseignement superieur.
Universites > États-Unis > Finances.
Enseignement superieur > Aspect economique > États-Unis.
Universities and colleges > United States > Finance.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Putting U.S. performance funding in context
  • The varying trajectories of higher education performance funding programs
  • Origins of the first wave of state performance funding options / with Rachel Hare Bork, Sosanya M. Jones, and Blanca E. Vega
  • Incremental change in Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee
  • Performance funding discontinued: lessons from Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and Washington
  • Origins of the second wave of performance funding adoptions / with Sosany M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash Reddy
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: research questions, theoretical perspectives, and research.

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