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Performance Funding in South Carolina: Space Odyssey's Hal Meets Homer's Odysseus

Presenter(s): Thomas Hallman and Lovely Ulmer-Sottong. University of South Carolina-Aiken; Michael Smith, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education
Convener: Persis C. Rickes, Rickes Associates

In 1996 South Carolina passed a law mandating that funding for all 33 public institutions of higher education be based on institutional scores on 37 performance indicators. In 1998 the state received a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant to study this process. This session describes changes at the state and institutional levels in planning, budgeting, and student outcomes that have happened (or not). Findings of the FIPSE study as well as first-hand accounts of this dynamic five-year period will be presented with the hope that others will be guided in their own accountability odysseys.

This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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