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.
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This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance.
This is the first comprehensive study of performance funding of public colleges and universities, which directly ties some state allocations to institutional results on designated indicators.
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This is the 97th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Institutional Research. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals section.
Beginning with the earliest efforts to regulate schools, the author reveals the rationale behind accountability and outlines the historical development of how US federal and state policies, accreditation practices, private-sector interests, ...
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This book takes stock of current thinking and practice around performance-based funding of public research in tertiary education institutions, as a tool to help governments meet their research goals.
The research volumes offer unique insights regarding the state of affairs of European higher education and research, as well as forward-looking policy proposals.