House panel seeks success in creating higher ed performance-based funding plan
A House effort to arrive at a successful performance-based model for funding the state’s colleges and universities launched on Tuesday.
Representative Brenda Shields (Photo: Tim Bommel, Missouri House Communications)
The House Special Interim Committee on Higher Education Performance Funding held an introductory hearing, in which it heard several presentations about the past attempts at performance-based funding.
What the legislature is using now in setting higher education funding is a “base plus” model, but Shields said no one has been able to tell her where that base came from.
MU System President Mun Choi addresses the House Special Interim Committee on Higher Education Performance Funding (Photo: Tim Bommel, Missouri House Communications)
Tuesday’s hearing set the Department of Higher Education to the task of creating a work group with representation from all the institutions of higher education in the state.