Intermediary Outcomes of Performance-Based Funding: Faculty and Staff Changes

• In Event: 66.042 - Organizational Administration, Faculty, and Institutional Change

Abstract

Increased calls for higher education accountability have gained additional urgency recently in the context of rising college prices, stagnant student outcomes, and limited state financial support. Performance-based funding is a particularly popular policy aimed at accountability for public institutions, which ties a portion (or all) of state appropriations to a set of outcomes at an institution. Prior research on performance-based funding has focused on student success outcomes and found mix results. However, before student success outcomes can change at an institution, colleges and universities need to change their internal structures. Therefore, we examine if and how the number faculty and staff and the salaries of these position change after performance-based funding is implemented.

Authors

• Meghan Oster, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Fernando Furquim, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Jon McNaughtan, Texas Tech University