Performance funding for higher education / Kevin J. Dougherty, Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca S. Natow, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash Reddy.

1. Introduction -- Widespread Adoption of Performance Funding ; The Different Forms of Performance Funding ; Conceptualizing How Performance Funding Works ; Chapter Contents and Preview of Findings -- 2. Research Perspectives, Questions, and Methods -- Existing Scholarship on the Impacts of Performance Funding and Its Limitations ; Enlisting Insights from Other Bodies of Literature ; Conceptual Framework ; Research Questions ; Research Methods -- 3. Policy Instruments and Their Immediate Impacts -- Financial Incentives ; Communication of State Program Goals and Methods ; Communication of Institutional Performance on the State Metrics ; Building Up Institutional Capacity to Respond to Performance Funding ; Disaggregating Our Main Patterns ; Summary and Conclusions -- 4. Organizational Learning in Response to Performance Funding -- Deliberative Processes Used to Respond to Performance Funding ; Variations in Deliberative Processes ; Aids and Hindrances to Deliberation ; Variations in Aids and Hindrances ; Summary and Conclusions -- 5. Changes to Institutional Policies, Programs, and Practices -- Perceptions about the Impact of Performance Funding ; Changes in Academic Policies, Practices, and Programs ; Student Services Changes ; Isomorphism and the Institutionalization of Campus Changes ; Disaggregating Our Main Patterns ; Summary and Conclusions --

6. Student Outcomes -- Descriptive Data ; Multivariate Study Findings ; Summary and Conclusions -- 7. Obstacles to Effective Response -- Student-Body Composition ; Inappropriate Performance Funding Measures ; Insufficient Institutional Capacity ; Insufficient State Funding of Higher Education ; Institutional Resistance to Performance Funding ; Insufficient Knowledge of Performance Funding ; Variations within Our Main Findings ; Summary and Conclusions -- 8. Unintended Impacts of Performance Funding -- Restrictions of Student Admission ; Weakening of Academic Standards ; Compliance Costs ; Reduced Institutional Cooperation ; Lower Faculty and Staff Morale ; Less Faculty Voice in Academic Governance ; Narrowing of Institutional Mission ; Variations within Our Main Findings ; Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Summary and Conclusions -- Key Findings ; Implications for Policy ; Implications for Research ; Concluding Thoughts -- Appendixes -- A. The Nature and History of Performance Funding in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee ; B. Interview Protocol for State Officials ; C. Interview Protocol for University Administrators and Faculty.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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