Community Colleges Beat Student Outcome Predictions. Now Texas Can’t Afford Related Incentives.

Community colleges beat student outcome predictions. Now Texas can’t afford related incentives.

A formula designed to reward colleges for student success generated larger payouts than budgeted. Now, Texas’ higher education agency may limit how schools receive such funding.

Texas may limit community college's incentive funding

A formula designed to reward colleges for student success generated larger payouts than budgeted. Now, Texas’ higher education agency may limit how schools receive such funding.

Performance-Based Proposal May Lead To Overhaul Of University Funding In TX – 710am KURV

A committee formed by the state’s higher education agency is considering a new funding model for four-year colleges and universities in Texas. The new plan would reward more money to schools with improved graduation and retention rates. The committee presented a report about the new funding model on Wednesday. At present, funding for colleges is based mostly on the number of students enrolled and courses offered. The Texas Higher Education Coord…

Community colleges beat student outcome predictions. Now Texas can’t afford related incentives. - Open Campus

Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But now the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive as their successes outpaced what state lawmakers budgeted. Officials with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board are scrambling to adjust the funding formula. During Wednesday’s board meeting, they will discuss a …

Higher Education funding formula raises equity concerns

The Higher Education Commission’s funding formula is drawing scrutiny after revelations that 97 percent of government grants go to universities, while only 3 percent is shared among non-universities, raising questions about whether technical and vocational institutions are being sidelined despite their critical role in addressing Fiji’s skills shortage. Commission chair Eci Naisele explained that the […]