New papers show how institutions can align programs and finances to support student success
Lumina Foundation today released a final round of papers exploring how public colleges and universities are responding to moves nationally by state policymakers toward the use of outcomes-based funding to boost postsecondary attainment and away from enrollment-based funding. States increasingly are using thoughtfully designed funding models to promote changes in institutional climate and culture that benefit students and society.
The latest papers focus on how institutions can align internal finances, student supports and incentives, and educational delivery to respond to funding formulas that create incentives for on-time degree completion and year-over-year increases in the numbers of students of color and at-risk students who earn degrees or other credentials. Higher education researchers and practitioners examined how one university in California is responding to the state’s increased focus on student completion, how incentives institutions offer students can affect degree completion, and how colleges and universities are using financial best practices to do better by students.
See all of the papers here!
- The third round of papers in this series includes:
- Leveraging outcomes-based funding policies at the institutional level by José Cruz, provost and vice president for academic affairs, California State University, Fullerton
- Aligning Student and Institution Incentives in Higher Education Finance by Nate Johnson, founder and principal, Postsecondary Analytics
- Connecting state and institutional finance policies for improved outcomes by Steve Boilard, executive director, Center for California Studies, Sacramento State University
- Outcomes-based funding and Responsibility-Centered Management: Combining the best of state and institutional budget models to achieve shared goals by Linda Kosten, associate provost of planning, budget and analysis, University of Denver
- Using real-time labor market information to achieve better labor market outcomes by John Dorrer, program director, Building Economic Opportunity Group, Jobs for the Future
by Lucia Anderson Weathers
Jul 14, 2016
