Performance based reviews of Community Colleges

Inside Higher Education has an article about this new trend towards performance based funding of the public college system, which includes the community college system.  The article states:



Performance-based funding is increasingly popular among both state and federal policy makers, who want public institutions to graduate more students, more efficiently. Yet colleges may cope with these funding formulas by using grade inflation or admitting fewer at-risk students.
That was the central finding of a survey of college administrators in Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee, all of which have substantial performance-funding policies in place.
In addition to unintended consequences such as weakened academic standards and tightened admissions policies, the survey’s respondents cited concerns about the costs of compliance with performance funding and damage to cooperation between institutions. Lower morale, a narrowing of the institutional mission, and threats to the faculty role in governance also made the list.

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