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The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education - Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education - Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations (Hardcover)
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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 efficient and effective. In The
Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education, Kevin J.
Dougherty and Rebecca S. Natow explore the sometimes puzzling
evolution of this mode of funding higher education. Drawing on an
eight-state study of performance funding in Florida, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington,
Dougherty and Natow shed light on the social and political factors
affecting the origins, evolution, and demise of these programs.
Their findings uncover patterns of frequent adoption,
discontinuation, and re-adoption. Of the thirty-six states that
have ever adopted performance funding, two-thirds discontinued it,
although many of those later re-adopted it. Even when performance
funding programs persist over time, they can undergo considerable
changes in both the amount of state funding and in the indicators
used to allocate funding. Yet performance funding continues to
attract interest from federal and state officials, state policy
associations, and major foundations as a way of improving
educational outcomes. The authors explore the various forces,
actors, and motives behind the adoption, discontinuation, and
transformation of performance funding programs. They compare U.S.
programs to international models, and they gauge the likely future
of performance funding, given the volatility of the political
forces driving it. Aimed at educators, sociologists, political
scientists, and policy makers, this book will be hailed as the
definitive assessment of the origins and evolution of performance
funding.
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