Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education

Tiffany Jones is Program Director for Higher Education Research and Policy at the Southern Education Foundation.Sosanya Jones is Assistant Professor of Qualitative Methods and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, USA.LaToya Russell Owens is doctoral candidate and Dean's Fellow in the College of Education at Georgia State University, USA, and doctoral intern at the Southern Education Foundation.Amanda E. Assalone is Postdoctoral Research and Policy Analyst at the Southern Education Foundation.Kayla C. Elliott is a Doctoral Student in the Higher Education Leadership program at Florida Atlantic University, USA. She is an experienced nonprofit fundraising professional dedicated to education, equity, and empowerment. Denisa Gándara is Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Education Policy and Leadership at Southern Methodist University, USA. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Zell and Shirley Miller Graduate Fellowship.

• Chapter 1. Show Me the Outcomes! The Emergence of Performance and Outcomes Based Funding in Higher Education.- Chapter 2. Double or Nothing, States Betting it all on Performance and Outcomes Based Funding and the Implications for Equity.- Chapter 3. Reparations and Rewards: Performance and Outcomes Based Funding and De Jure to De Facto Segregation in Higher Education Systems.- Chapter 4. Impacting the Whole Community: Two-Year Minority-Serving Institutions and Performance and Outcomes Based Funding in Texas.- Chapter 5. A Critical Analysis of the Socio-Political Climate for POBF in Three States.- Chapter 6. Policy Actors, Advocates, & Critics: The promotion and critique of performance and outcomes based funding’s impact on equity.- Chapter 7. Between Words and Action: The Problem with POBF Indictors for Achieving Racial Diversity.- Chapter 8. Toward a New Framework for funding for equity.