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Introduction
Missouri supports a two-tiered Funding for Results program
statewide. In the state-level tier, Missouri allocates a small fraction
of the total budget for higher education to individual institutions on
the basis of responses to statewide goals and objectives. For example,
students scoring above the 50th percentile on a nationally normed exam
generate a particular sum of money for the allocation going to that particular
institutions.
Missouri also supports a campus-level Funding for Results
program. Through this tier, the state gives a line-item allocation to each
institution on a basis of that institution having in place a mechanism
by which funding is made available for innovation leading to improvements
in teaching and learning. The FY1999 budget for Southeast includes nearly
$250,000 for projects designed to improve teaching and learning.
Southeast's approach merges Funding for Results with Strategic
Planning. Our Funding for Results program provides a mechanism to fund
those strategic initiatives having to do with the enhancement of teaching
and learning. Proposals are requested in a standard grant proposal format
and are reviewed by a Funding for Results team in the standard manner in
which grants are normally reviewed. Awards are managed as grant accounts. |
