Performance-Based Funding for Community Colleges: Are Colleges Disadvantaged by Serving the Most Disadvantaged Students?

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 159-182

  McKinney, Lyle ^a   Hagedorn, Linda Serra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community colleges; performance based funding; state higher education policy; Texas

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043578937     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: 15384640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2016.1243948     Document Type: Article

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