Performance-Based Funding for Higher Education: How Well Does Neoliberal Theory Capture Neoliberal Practice?
This article discusses the origins, implementation, and impacts of neoliberal policies by examining the case of performance-based funding for higher education in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere. It provides recommendations for how to improve performance funding and how to construct policy models that go behind the narrow imaginings of neoliberal theory.
The Labor Market Returns to For-Profit Higher Education: Evidence for Transfer Students
This paper examines the labor market gains for students who enrolled at for-profit colleges after beginning their postsecondary education in community college.
The False Dichotomy Between Academic Learning and Occupational Skills
This essay compares broad academic and vocational program goals, embodied skills, tasks, and jobs, with a focus primarily on community college students.
Nonpecuniary Returns to Postsecondary Education: Examining Early Non-Wage Labor Market Outcomes Among College-Goers in the United States
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this CAPSEE working paper examines nonpecuniary labor market outcomes associated with different levels of postsecondary educational attainment.
How and Why Higher Education Institutions Use Technology in Developmental Education Programming
This paper explores how technology is integrated into developmental education programming and considerations for institutional leaders when deciding whether and how to integrate technology in developmental education.