Performance Funding (guess what? it doesn’t work)

It’s all the buzz.  Just say the words and the Gates Foundation will give you money.  Say them twice and you’ll have some legislators swooning over you.  Look at the Vision Project and it’s all about funding campuses according to how well they do at meeting certain goals.  But check out this important new study […]

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PHENOM Recommendations to Higher Education Funding Commission

The 2013-14 budget passed by the Legislature includes the establishment of a commission to examine options and make recommendations regarding the funding of public higher education in Massachusetts.  The Commission is to complete its work by June 2014.  PHENOM looks forward to working with the Commission, and has begun by making a set of far-reaching […]

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