Inside Higher Ed: Report on Performance-based Funding Cites CCRC's Kevin Dougherty.
In an Inside Higher Education article about performance-based funding formulas, which link support for public colleges to student completion rates, degree production numbers or other metrics, David Tandberg, an assistant professor of higher education at Florida State University, praises a new report by HCM Strategies for its use of portions of studies by Kevin J. Dougherty, an associate professor of higher education at Columbia University's Teachers College, a senior research associate with TC's Community College Research Center.
Recent studies of performance-based funding by Dougherty and colleagues at CCRC:
“Implementing Performance Funding in Three Leading States: Instruments, Outcomes, Obstacles, and Unintended Impacts” by: Kevin Dougherty, Sosanya Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca Natow, Lara Pheatt & Vikash Reddy.
“Policy Instruments in Service of Performance Funding: A Study of Performance Funding in Three States” by: Vikash Reddy, Hana Lahr, Kevin Dougherty, Sosanya Jones, Rebecca Natow & Lara Pheatt.
“Institutional Changes to Organizational Policies, Practices, and Programs Following the Adoption of State-Level Performance Funding Policies” by: Rebecca Natow, Lara Pheatt, Kevin Dougherty, Sosanya Jones, Hana Lahr & Vikash Reddy.
Published Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015