Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-306) and index.
Preface -- New accountability -- Performance funding and budgeting : old differences and new similarities -- Performance funding indicators : imperfect necessities -- Performance funding : campus reactions -- Twenty years of performance funding in Tennessee : a case study of policy intent and effectiveness -- Integrating budget, assessment and accountability policies : Missouri's experiment with performance funding -- Ready, fire, aim : performance funding policies for public postsecondary education in Florida -- Ohio's challenge : a clash of performance funding and base budgeting -- Performance funding in South Carolina : from fringe to mainstream -- Performance funding : easier to start than sustain -- Performance funding : assessing program stability -- Arguments about performance funding : rhetoric and reality -- Conclusion : Linking funding to performance : a trend, not a fad