Performance Funding Policy Effects on Community College Outcomes: Are Short-Term Certificates on the Rise?

Community College Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 3-39

  Li, Amy Y ^a   Kennedy, Alec I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

accountability; certificates; difference in differences; finance; higher education; performance funding; state policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037589931     PISSN: 00915521     EISSN: 19402325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0091552117743790     Document Type: Article

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