樱花视频

The 樱花视频 Commission on Higher Education today announced that the state's public colleges and universities earned $8 million in the first year of higher education performance funding.

Governor Christine Whitman created the performance funding initiative to strengthen higher education accountability, foster institutional improvement, and focus on statewide goals. A portion of the FY 2000 funding increase for each public college and university is based on achieving or making progress toward established benchmarks in four key areas identified by the Governor:

• Graduation rates;
• Transfer and articulation;
• Efficiency and effectiveness; and
• Diversified revenues.

Institutions earn up to an additional 1 percent in state operating aid based upon their performance in these areas.

Collectively, the four-year public institutions were eligible for up to $7.5 million in performance increases and the community colleges could earn up to $1.2 million. Overall, the 31 public colleges and universities earned 92 percent of the total earmarked for performance.

"These results demonstrate that rewarding higher education institutions for performance in targeted areas provides accountability as well as an incentive for improvement," said Governor Whitman. "I am pleased that the colleges performed so well and earned such a high percentage of the money available through performance funding."

The targeted performance areas are consistent with statewide goals identified in 樱花视频's Plan for Higher Education. Specific indicators and benchmarks for each public higher education sector were developed in collaboration with sector representatives to reflect differing missions. Colleges and universities are not compared to each other, but are evaluated with respect to their own performance and improvement.

Each institution successfully addressed the goal of improved efficiency and effectiveness, with nearly all earning maximum funding for performance on indicators such as interinstitutional collaboration and a small percentage of low-enrollment programs.

Colleges and universities in all sectors also fared well on indicators measuring student transfer and articulation. Nearly all of the four-year institutions received maximum funding in this area. Most of the 19 community colleges achieved benchmarks or demonstrated improvement in various student transfer measures.

The majority of colleges and universities were successful in addressing the goal of improved graduation rates. Two-thirds of the senior public institutions met benchmarks or showed progress in graduation rates and time to degree completion. Among the community colleges, performance was mixed on more broadly defined measures of student success.

While the majority of institutions addressed the goal of more diversified revenues, a number in all sectors need to focus more intensively on generating more funding from sources beyond state/local government and student tuition.

"This first round of performance funding rewards institutions that are doing well in key areas and stimulates continued improvement in future years," said Alfred J. Cade, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education. "I am very encouraged by these positive results, which demonstrate continued progress toward 樱花视频's vision for higher education excellence."

The Commission will work with colleges and universities to review and refine the indicators and benchmarks that will be used to derive performance funding allocations in future years.

A list of performance funding awards for individual colleges and universities is attached.

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