Performance-Based Funding: Equity Analysis of Funding Distribution among State Universities

The Funding of Michigan Universities

This comparison of state funding, while useful, is conceptually flawed, in that it promotes the assumption that all programs and thereby all students cost the same. A more interesting comparison is to look at state funding as a percent of total revenue. In Michigan this ranges from a high of 51% at Wayne State University to a low of 28% at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Removing resear...

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

The Equity of Public Education Funding

Next Step : State Funding ?

The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 marked the most comprehensive and radical overhaul of British party finance for over 100 years. It instituted reforms in many areas with the notable exception of the comprehensive extension of state funding for political parties. However, despite the radicalism of the Act, questions have already arisen as to whether the further state fun...

Equity and Excellence in Research Funding

The tension between equity and excellence is fundamental in science policy. This tension might appear to be resolved through the use of merit-based evaluation as a criterion for research funding. This is not the case. Merit-based decision making alone is insufficient because of inequality aversion, a fundamental tendency of people to avoid extremely unequal distributions. The distribution of pe...