Abstract
Performance funding policies for higher education tie a portion of state revenue to public colleges according to student outcomes. This chapter is a comprehensive literature review of research studies on performance funding, highlighting the conceptual frameworks employed by authors and focusing on three areas of the policy: development, adoption, and design; campus implementation and responses; and ultimate impacts on retention and completion, access, student enrollment demographics, and institutional finances. This chapter pays attention to equity considerations of performance funding and discusses the policy’s impacts on colleges with different levels of resource capacity, selectivity, and student characteristics. The chapter concludes with considerations for future research on the policy.
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Li, A.Y. (2021). Four Decades of Performance Funding and Counting. In: Perna, L.W. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43030-6_8-1
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