The Politics Of Performance Funding For Higher Education
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The Politics Of Performance Funding For Higher Education
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Author : Kevin J. Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-05-15
The Politics Of Performance Funding For Higher Education written by Kevin J. Dougherty and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Education categories.
The first nation-wide analysis of the politics of performance funding in higher education. 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.
Performance Funding For Higher Education
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Author : Kevin J. Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Performance Funding For Higher Education written by Kevin J. Dougherty and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Education categories.
Ultimately, the authors recommend that states create new ways of helping colleges with many at-risk students, define performance indicators and measures better tailored to institutional missions, and improve the capacity of colleges to engage in organizational learning.
The Political Origins Of Higher Education Performance Funding In Six States Ccrc Brief Number 47
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Author : Kevin J. Dougherty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Political Origins Of Higher Education Performance Funding In Six States Ccrc Brief Number 47 written by Kevin J. Dougherty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
This Brief summarizes a study that examined the origins of state performance funding in six states: Tennessee, Missouri, Florida, South Carolina, Washington, and Illinois. In order to capture a wide range of possible forces at work in the origins of performance funding, the authors selected states that differed in a variety of ways, including when performance funding was established, how long the system was in place, which sectors of public higher education were affected, the proportion of state higher education funding taken up by performance funding, higher education governance structures, state political culture and government functioning, degree of party competition, and differences in social characteristics such as population, income, and education. The research was based on semi-structured interviews in each state with a variety of political actors and on examinations of the documentary record in the form of public agency reports, academic books and articles, doctoral dissertations, and newspaper articles. The authors' analysis drew on two powerful theories of policy origins: the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier & Weible, 2007) and the Policy Entrepreneurship perspective (Mintrom & Norman, 2009). The Advocacy Coalition Framework looks at how policy evolves over long periods of time, driven by the efforts of different "advocacy coalitions" that have distinctive sets of beliefs about how society is and should be organized and what form higher education policy should take. The Policy Entrepreneurship perspective highlights the role of policy entrepreneurs who identify public issues, develop policy solutions, bring together political coalitions, and take advantage of timing and political opportunities to promote their policy issues and solutions. Used in conjunction, these two theories help identify important features of the politics of performance funding that are not sufficiently addressed by the prevailing literature on the origins of performance funding. The authors find that while the prevailing perspective on the rise of performance accountability is correct on a number of points, it overlooks several important elements. Their analysis confirms that the following circumstances favor the establishment of a performance funding system: a revenue/cost squeeze on elected government officials, business demand for greater government efficiency and lower costs, and a rising Republican presence in state legislatures. However, they identify a variety of actors, and their beliefs and motives, that the prevailing perspective does not address, such as advocates of performance funding from within higher education itself and their desire for new sources of public funding. They also draw greater attention to the opponents of performance funding and the long-term effects of such opposition. Finally, their research calls attention to the influence of policy learning and "policy windows" or "external shocks." [This Brief is based on CCRC Working Paper No. 22, "The Political Origins of State-Level Performance Funding for Higher Education: The Cases of Florida, Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington".].
Higher Education Rulemaking
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Author : Rebecca S. Natow
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017
Higher Education Rulemaking written by Rebecca S. Natow and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Education categories.
The federal bureaucratic role -- The procedural process -- Policy actors' influence -- Strategies and powers of influence -- The role of policy actors' beliefs -- Higher education rulemaking in context -- The use and influence of technology
The Adoption Of Performance Funding In Higher Education
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Author : Randall W. Hanna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Adoption Of Performance Funding In Higher Education written by Randall W. Hanna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The Politics Of Performance Funding In Eight States
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Author : Kevin J. Dougherty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Politics Of Performance Funding In Eight States written by Kevin J. Dougherty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Despite the popularity of performance funding among policymakers and policy advocates, only half of all states have ever created a performance funding system for higher education. State performance funding systems have also been surprisingly unstable. Nearly half of those states that established performance funding systems for higher education eventually discontinued these systems. This report examines the political forces that shaped performance funding policies in eight states. The report begins by analyzing the origins of performance funding, contrasting the experiences of six states that established performance funding systems for higher education (Florida, Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington) and two states that did not establish such a system, although they considered it (California and Nevada). Second, the report analyzes the forces behind the demise of performance funding in four states that ended their systems at different times: Washington, Illinois, Missouri, and Florida (its Workforce Development Education Fund). Next, the report examines how and why two performance funding systems that have lasted to this day--Tennessee's Performance Funding system and Florida's Performance Based Budgeting system--have changed over time in funding levels and performance indicators. Finally, the report draws evidence-based recommendations for policymakers. (Contains 8 tables and 61 footnotes.).
Higher Education Finance Research
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Author : Mary P. McKeown-Moak
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Higher Education Finance Research written by Mary P. McKeown-Moak and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Education categories.
There is a void in the literature on how to conduct research in the finance and economics of higher education. Students, professors, and practitioners have no concise document that examines the field, provides history, definitions of terms, sources of data, and research methods. Higher Education Finance Research: Policy, Politics, and Practice fills that void. The book is structured in four parts. The first section provides a brief history and description of the general organization of American higher education, the sources and uses of funds over the last 100 years, and who is served in what types of institutions. Definitions of terms that are unique to higher education are provided, and some basic rules for conducting research on the economics and finance of higher education are established. Although in some ways, conducting research in higher education funding is similar to that for elementary/secondary education, there are some important distinctions that also are provided. The second section introduces guiding philosophies, sources of data, data elements/vocabulary, metrics, and analytics related to institutional revenues and expenditures. Chapters in this section focus on student oriented revenues, institutionally-oriented revenues, and funding formulas. The third section introduces accountability-related concepts by first examining the accountability movement in higher education and performance-based approaches applied in budgeting and funding, then looking at methods to determine public and private returns on investment in postsecondary education, and closing with an examination of finance from the perspective of the primary consumer: students. The fourth and last section of the book focuses on presenting postsecondary finance research to policy audiences to assist in connecting academic research and policy making. Chapters focus on accounting for time considerations in analysis, the placing of data in context to make the data and findings relevant, and ways to effectively communicate findings to various policy-making audiences.
Financing Public Universities
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Author : Marcel Herbst
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-05-16
Financing Public Universities written by Marcel Herbst and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-16 with Education categories.
This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead. Four appendices cover more technical matters.
Performance Funding For Higher Education What Are The Mechanisms What Are The Impacts
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Author : Kevin J. Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-06-19
Performance Funding For Higher Education What Are The Mechanisms What Are The Impacts written by Kevin J. Dougherty and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-19 with Education categories.
After first appearing in 1979 in Tennessee, performance funding for higher education went on to be adopted by another 26 states. This monograph reviews research on a multitude of states to address these questions: • What impacts does performance funding have on institutional practices and, ultimately, student outcomes? • What obstacles and unintended effects do performance funding encounter? This monograph finds considerable impacts on institutional practices, weak impacts on student outcomes, substantial obstacles, and sizable unintended impacts. Given this, the monograph closes with a discussion of the implications for future research and for public policymaking on performance funding. This is the 2nd issue of the 39th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
Reforms Organizational Change And Performance In Higher Education
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Author : Rómulo Pinheiro
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-17
Reforms Organizational Change And Performance In Higher Education written by Rómulo Pinheiro and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with Political Science categories.
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within universities; strategic and performance management; the rise of accountability regimes; incentive and evaluative systems; and perceived changes/effects by the key actors involved, at various levels. The volume provides critical insights to the larger phenomenon of change and adaptation within the public sector. Its findings and implications are of relevance to social science researchers, policy makers, managers/administrators, and external stakeholders.