Performance-based funding, performance-based pay, performance-based assessment:  what gives and why now?  This article goes a long way toward answering those essential questions and the picture ain’t pretty.   The model for performance-based funding outlined in the Senate budget proposal raises some questions and concerns about how the money would be distributed and what the likely
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Thomas Hobbes described the state of Nature as the “bellum omnium contra omnes,” the war of all against all. This is exactly the state of higher education funding that is contemplated here by Senate President Pro Tem, David Givens, “Whoever’s shown the best performance for the budget period we’ve described would get 100 percent of
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Are we in Kentucky lining up for an Illinois-like budget shutdown?  I sure hope not. That would be bad, bad, bad. Very bad.  News below about Senate budget plan. To view in PDF format, click here. The Senate budget maintains the governor’s dramatic proposed cuts of nine percent to postsecondary education, parts of P-12 education
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And so it begins in Kentucky…The famous American political scientist Harold Lasswell famously defined politics as who gets what, when, and how.  What is Governor Bevin getting? When is he getting it? How is he getting it?  We might also add to this why does it have to be in this particularly painful political way?
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I would not normally open a relationship with someone by naming them a fool, but I cannot help but call out this video for what it is–politically moronic. And worse, it’s not even funny. Modern technology allows us to comment on his “not ready for YouTube” political theater in the Vialogue embed below. You can just
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After holding off with several cuts until Monday night meeting hoping the State Budget Impasse would be resolved, the Kaskaskia College Board of Trustees were forced to make tough decisions at last night’s meeting cutting programs and positions. Citing they were not cutting fat, but into the bone…the board unanimously approved moving forward with several
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If you are looking for short-term, severe consequences to higher education spending cuts, look no farther than what is happening in Illinois.   What is surprising (although it shouldn’t be) are the unintended consequences that already arise from the cuts.  For example, students might be required to pay back grants that universities fronted to students
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