Performance Funding In U.S. Colleges And Universities And Enlightenment

Since1980s, the higher education scale has expanded unceasingly, but the government’s fiscal revenue ability is limited and the financial capacity to pay for the Higher education declines increasingly.At the same time, due to the shortage of resources and the comeing of Public accountability.The concern of Higher education resource utilization efficiency was promoted to a new height.So, how to both increase financial investment in higher education and guarantee the performance, to reference the experience of foreign universities and explore funding methods of our country becomes the breach to solve the problem.Many foreign countries have implemented a funding method which combined funding with performance——Performance funding.America is a successful example in this part, because its performance funding practice has a long history, a mature theoretical supporting and an abundant practical experience.In the present, study the performance funding has important theoretical and practical significance.Tt not only can enrich the public finance management theory, the higher education funding theory, but also can provide theory basis for formulating policy of the government.The main contents and innovative points is as follows. Through documentary reference, case analysis and other methods, First, this paper starts from the basic concept of performance evaluation, performance funding etc.Tt analyzes the basic theory of the performance funding in Colledges and Universities.Then, it reviews the background, the stage of development and the trends for future development of performance funding in U.S. Colleges and Universities. Take South Carolina for an example, summarizes the experience and lesson of performance funding in U.S.Colledges and Universities.At last, through summarizing the experience and lesson of performance funding in U.S.Colledges and Universities, deeply analyzes the relationship between investment performance evaluation in Colleges and Universities and the performance funding in Colleges and Universities and how to establish scientific and specific performance index system of performance funding in Colledges and Universities.Try to design the performance funding index which is suitable for our country,extend performance funding to all levels of public Colleges and Universities and Private Universities.