The Politics of Higher Education
Author | : James Dunlap Nowlan |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Dunlap Nowlan |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara Whiteside Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kevin J. Dougherty |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421416905 |
"One of the striking ways in which state governments have pursued better performance in public higher education is through the use of performance funding. Performance funding involves tying state support directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes such as rates of graduation and job placement. The principal rationale for performance funding has been that the introduction of market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient, delivering "more bang for the buck." Kevin Dougherty, an expert on state performance funding, finds its development puzzling. First, despite the great interest in it, only half the states have ever adopted performance funding for higher education. Moreover, of the states that did adopt performance funding, over half later dropped it. Finally, in the states that have retained performance funding over a long period of time, their programs have undergone considerable changes in the amount of state funding they devote to performance funding and in the content of the indicators they use to allocate that funding. In spite of this, performance funding continues to attract interest as a way of improving educational outcomes. This book, based on an extensive ten-state study, aims to shed light on the social and political factors affecting the origins, evolution, and demise of these programs"--
Author | : Elizabeth Todd-Breland |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2018-10-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1469646595 |
In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities to demand increased school resources. On the other side, the mayor, backed by the Obama administration, argued that only corporate-style education reform could set the struggling school system aright. The stark differences in positions resonated nationally, challenging the long-standing alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. Elizabeth Todd-Breland recovers the hidden history underlying this battle. She tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models that pre-dated charter schools, and black teachers' challenges to a newly assertive teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the burgeoning neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century, laying bare ruptures and enduring tensions between the politics of black achievement, urban inequality, and U.S. democracy.
Author | : Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee on State Government Organization |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Higher education and state |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carol Everly Floyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jack R. Van Der Slik |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780809323494 |
In this fascinating, theoretically informed case study of policy-making, Jack R. Van Der Slik demonstrates partisan politics in action in Illinois. Specifically, he shows how major changes in governing state universities were enacted over the objections of members of the higher education community, who preferred to maintain the status quo. In 1991, Republican Governor Jim Edgar, enthusiastically aided by Lieutenant Governor Bob Kustra, began a political effort to decentralize the "system of systems", which had governed state universities since the 1960s. Despite partisan defeat of their plan in 1993, Edgar and Kustra managed to neutralize support for the status quo in the educational community. After their 1995 landslide reelection, which brought about Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature, Edgar and Kustra were so successful in achieving their goals that they actually had to restrain the legislature's enthusiasm for decentralization: the legislature wanted to extend decentralization to community colleges. To account for these policy shifts, Van Der Slik interviewed twenty-five significant players from the executive branch of Illinois government, from the legislature, and from the educational community. Grounding his study theoretically, he compared his findings to previous studies in American policy-making: Jack Kingom's 1984 notion of the crucial role of the "policy entrepreneur"; arguments in 1993 by Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones that public policies are inherently unstable and that discoverable phenomena can account for policy eruption; and research in 1995 by Charles O. Jones covering presidential transitions from Kennedy to Reagan. In thisanalysis of political give and take, Van Der Slik notes that elected officials proposed a solution to the problems of bureaucratic bloat and unresponsiveness that leaders of the higher education community would not support. Political leaders based their actions on bold intuition rather than on a rational consideration of the consequences. Given the possibility of change, Van Der Slik observes, politicians instinctively knew what policies to effect. To a remarkable degree, the political actions in Illinois fit the theoretical formulations of previous scholarship in national policy-making. As key participants recount their own actions and their observations, then, Van Der Slik places what happened in Illinois into a larger context.
Author | : Boyd R. Keenan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jon Francis McKenna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Illinois Commission of Higher Education |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
ISBN | : |