Fund Universities based on performance, says Senator

State Sen. Nicole Boyd, who chairs the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee, pressed the case for tying more Mississippi university funding to performance in a July 13 SuperTalk Mississippi interview.

Boyd criticised the Institutions of Higher Learning board's emerging plan — which the lieutenant governor recently called inadequate — noting it would base only about 1% of the roughly $900 million university budget on performance. She said the Senate passed legislation last year, which stalled in a House committee, that would have shifted about 75% of funding to a performance-based formula over three years, modelled in part on Tennessee. IHL is expected to hold meetings on a new formula in September.

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