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

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dougherty, Kevin James
Otros Autores: Natow, Rebecca S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.