The politics of performance funding for higher education : origins, discontinuations, and transformations

The politics of performance funding for higher education : origins, discontinuations, and transformations / Kevin J. Dougherty and Rebecca S. Natow.

"One of the striking ways in which state governments have pursued better performance in public higher education is through the use of performance funding. Performance funding involves tying state support directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes such as rates of graduation and...

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Main Author: Dougherty, Kevin James
Other Authors: Natow, Rebecca S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > Finance.
Government aid to higher education.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects
Government aid to higher education
Universities and colleges > Finance
United States
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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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