Indiana’s colleges and universities won’t see new state incentive dollars this biennium for their performance on pre-set student success goals, but higher education officials said progress on key goals — especially for low-income students — is continuing.

A recent review by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education detailed how public institutions performed under the state’s Outcomes-Based Performance Funding (OBPF) formula, a model to tie a small portion of higher education appropriations to enrollment, degree completion and graduate retention, among other metrics.

But under Indiana’s latest budget, no new outcome-based dollars will be distributed until at least the next budget cycle.

The “Operating Prospective” line i tem — the pot of money dedicated to outcomes-based performan

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