Performance Funding for Higher Education: What Are the Mechanisms? What Are the Impacts?
This monograph reviews the national and state literature on the forms and impacts of performance funding, and it includes policy recommendations and suggestions for further research.
Access and Success With Less: Improving Productivity in Broad-Access Postsecondary Institutions
This article reviews research on what community colleges and less selective public universities can do to graduate more students at a lower cost without sacrificing access or quality.
Metrics, Dollars, and Systems Change: Learning From Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative to Design Effective Postsecondary Performance Funding Policies
Based on findings from a three-year study of Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative, this policy brief offers lessons for state leaders seeking to design effective higher education performance funding systems.
Accounting for Higher Education Accountability: Political Origins of State Performance Funding for Higher Education
This article discusses political forces that shaped performance funding policies in eight states: Florida, Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, California, and Nevada.
Washington State Student Achievement Initiative Policy Study: Final Report
This report assesses how and to what extent the Student Achievement Initiative has encouraged two-year public colleges in Washington State to take steps to improve student achievement.