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CREST | Research
IES awards College researchers $4.8 million/5 years to create a new doctoral training program for educational scientists
CIRGE | Research
CIRGE has been busy: its 5-Years Out study drew wide attention and it has hosted three int'l workshops on PhD education...
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Project Title: State Finance and Budget and Accountability Policies for Higher Education
COE Investigators: William Zumeta
Funding Source: National Education Association Higher Education Division, UW Provost's Office
Start/End Dates: 1994 - Ongoing
This research program has two main strands. The first strand illuminates the forces at work in terms of economic change and state demographics, politics and finances that have created the recent fiscal squeeze facing higher education across the country. The second strand of this research assesses the implications of the rise of budget-linked accountability measures in public higher education. The societal origins of the increased demands for measurable accountability are considered and compared to other sectors such as business, government, health care and K-12 education. The work examines how higher education may be different from these other sectors. Current accountability demands are fit into historical context by examining earlier mechanisms for accountability of public higher education in America. The result is an approach for rethinking higher education accountability in the contemporary era that is both historically and philosophically grounded and responsive to contemporary pressures in a democratic society.
Selected related publications
Zumeta, W. (1994-2002). A series of articles on higher education finance and accountability published annually in The NEA Almanac of Higher Education.
Zumeta, W. (2001). Public policy and accountability in higher education: Lessons from the past for the new millennium. In D. E. Heller (Ed.). The states and public higher education policy: Affordability, access, and accountability (pp. 155-197). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Zumeta, W. (2002, forthcoming). State higher education financing: Demand imperatives meet structural, cyclic and political constraints. In M. D. Parsons & E. P. St. John (Eds.). Funding for higher education: New contexts and rationales. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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