Funding public colleges and universities for performance : popularity, problems, and prospects / Joseph C. Burke and associates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Joseph C.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public universities and colleges--United States--Finance.

Public universities and colleges.

Higher education and state--United States.

Higher education and state.

Finance.

United States.

Program budgeting--United States.

Program budgeting.

Physical Description:

xviii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : Rockefeller Institute Press, [2002]

Contents:

1. The New Accountability 1

Assessing Performance 3

The Financial Crisis of Higher Education 6

Performance Reporting 8

Traditional Budgeting 15

Performance Funding: An Attractive Policy Alternative 17

2. Performance Funding and Budgeting: Old Differences and New Similarities 19

Traditional Budgeting 20

Performance Funding and Performance Budgeting 21

Current Status and Future Prospects 23

Performance Funding 23

Performance Budgeting 23

Dual Programs 26

Components 26

Challenges 27

Regional, Economic, and Political Relations 31

Impact on Institutional Improvement 32

Merging Models 34

3. Performance Funding Indicators: Imperfect Necessities 39

Creating Comparative Core Indicators 41

Indicator Content 43

Few Common Funding Indicators 46

Indicator Types 47

External or Internal Concerns 49

Policy Values 51

Models of Excellence 53

4. Performance Funding: Campus Reactions 61

The Survey 62

Familiarity and Dissemination 63

Stakeholder Influence 64

Performance as a Budgeting Factor 65

Purposes of Performance Funding 66

Policy Values 67

Indicator Preferences 69

Success Standards 71

Campus Use of Performance Results 71

Impact on Campus Performance 73

Achievements of Performance Funding Purposes 75

Difficulties of Performance Funding 77

Advantages of Performance Funding 77

Disadvantages of Performance Funding 78

Desired Changes 79

Program Future 79

Findings 80

5. Twenty Years of Performance Funding in Tennessee: A Case Study of Policy Intent and Effectiveness 85

Anticipating the Call to Accountability: Policy Heritage 86

Evolution of Indicators and Standards 88

Institutional History of Points and Dollars Earned 91

Evidence of Policy Impact and Effectiveness 91

Survey and Case Study Evidence 97

Reconciling Improvement and Accountability: A Summary 101

6. Integrating Budget, Assessment and Accountability Policies: Missouri's Experiment with Performance Funding 107

State Economic Conditions and Revenues 108

A Commitment to Assessment 109

Effectiveness Indicators 110

Performance Funding Emerges as a Major Missouri Initiative 110

First Performance Funding Budget Recommendation 112

State Commitment to Fund Results 113

Withstanding a Change in Leadership 116

Funding for Results Principles 118

Increased Attention 118

A Shift in Dialogue About FFR 119

FFR Funding 119

Changes in FFR Elements 120

Impact of FFR on Institutional Behavior 121

7. Ready, Fire, Aim: Performance Funding Policies for Public Postsecondary Education in Florida 137

Florida Background 138

Demographics and Enrollments 138

State Economic Conditions and Education Appropriations 139

Government and Governance 139

Precursors to Performance Funding 140

Initiative Funding 140

Accountability Report 141

The Government Performance and Accountability Act of 1994: The Arrival of Performance Budgeting 141

Community Colleges and Performance Budgeting 143

State University and Performance Budgeting 149

Workforce Development and Education Fund 152

The Impact of Performance Funding 154

Impact on Community Colleges 154

Impact on State Universities 156

A Lack of Leadership 156

The Future: More Changes on the Horizon 157

8. Ohio's Challenge: A Clash of Performance Funding and Base Budgeting 169

Higher Education Governance 170

Search for a Rational Budgeting Model 170

Performance Funding 172

Performance Challenge 174

Access Challenge 177

Jobs Challenge 177

Research Challenge 177

Success Challenge 178

Changing Leaders Bring Funding Increases 179

Preliminary Assessment 180

Strengths and Weaknesses 186

Performance Reporting 188

The Clash of Performance Funding and Base Budgeting 189

9. Performance Funding in South Carolina: From Fringe to Mainstream 195

Increased Coordination and New Leadership 197

A New Leader and A New Commission 198

The Commission Takes the Challenge 200

Phase 2 Campus Consultation and Covert Changes 203

Phase 3 Adjusting the Controls 206

Phase 4 Radical Revisions 209

Impact of Performance Funding on Sector Results 213

10. Performance Funding: Easier to Start Than Sustain 219

Arkansas: A Collaborative Process Produces a Suprising Product 219

Governance 220

Productivity Funding in the 1995-97 Biennium 222

A New Governor And New Priorities 223

The Demise of Performance Funding 224

Colorado: Up, Down, and Around Again 226

Funding Priority Areas 227

Performance Reporting 228

A New Performance Funding System 228

Kentucky: A Tale of Two Governors 230

Government and Governance 230

The Jones Commission 231

Accountability Versus Autonomy 234

Performance Funding in Minnesota: Hardly A Milestone 238

11. Performance Funding: Assessing Program Stability 243

Population 246

Design 246

Data Analysis 247

Results 248

Assessing the Stability of Continuing Programs 252

South Carolina 253

Ohio 254

Florida 254

South Carolina 255

Ohio 256

Florida 256

12. Arguments About Performance Funding: Rhetoric and Reality 265

Arguments For and Against Performance Funding 266

Arguments For Performance Funding 266

Arguments Against Performance Funding 272

Conclusion: Linking Funding to Performance: A Trend, Not a Fad 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-306) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0914341960

OCLC:

50447829