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Community College Administrators’ Perceptions of Ohio’s Performance-Funding Policy

Akakpo, Koffi C
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0098-4850
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1513287655583264

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Higher Education.
A number of states have replaced or are in the process of replacing traditional enrollment-based higher-education funding models with those based on performance. In 2015, Ohio legislators approved legislation, allocating more than half of state support for public institutions to a funding formula based on course completion, credit-hour milestones, and degree/certificate completion or transfer (Fain, 2015; Snyder, 2015). This quantitative study examined the perceptions of 1,055 administrators from 22 public community colleges in Ohio of the new performance-funding formula and whether institutional characteristics affected their perceptions. The study was framed by Pfeffer and Salancik’s (1978, 2003) theory of resource dependence. Unlike studies that suggest knowledge of performance-funding rarely makes it below the level of senior administrators, this study’s findings suggest performance-funding plays a role in widespread institutional behavior change. Results include several implications for higher education practice, including increased institutional awareness of performance, changes in student and instructional services, and clear and timely communication of the new performance-funding program at all levels, among others.
David Meabon, Ph.D (Committee Chair)
Ronald Opp, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Penny Poplin Gosetti, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Matthew Filipic, Ph.D (Committee Member)
211 p.
Community Colleges; Education Finance
Community Colleges, Community College Administrators, Performance-funding, Community College Administrators Perceptions of Performance-Funding Policy

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  • Akakpo, K. C. (2017). Community College Administrators’ Perceptions of Ohio’s Performance-Funding Policy [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1513287655583264

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Akakpo, Koffi. Community College Administrators’ Perceptions of Ohio’s Performance-Funding Policy . 2017. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1513287655583264.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Akakpo, Koffi. "Community College Administrators’ Perceptions of Ohio’s Performance-Funding Policy ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1513287655583264

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