Summarizes state models for performance-based funding, as well as reported results.The policy brief also summarizes recent and proposed state policies or plans. (AASCU, June 2011)
Focus on Complete College Tennessee Act. Addresses outcome funding model and the directives to community colleges to offer cohort based model and not deliver developmental education.
The Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission's final report with recommendations on reforming the state's higher education system and increasing graduation rates to include admission standards, performance funding and developmental education reform.
Focuses on four areas where states can drive a more productive higher education system to improve degree completion while maintaining quality. The four steps include: Performance funding, student incentives, new models and business efficiencies. (Lumina Foundation for Education, August 2011)
Report from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on how to create greater cost efficiencies in higher education. Offer several strategies for cutting costs including course redesign and performance funding.
Discusses plans by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt an outcomes-based funding formula for its community colleges and public universities. The plan would reward student completion, instead of simply student enrollment. See recommendations on THECB web site.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/02/texas
Paper argues that stronger federal, state and institutional leadership is needed to reach college completion goals, and suggests actions steps for each level. (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education; the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability; and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, December 2010)