Development of a new performance-based funding model is up for discussion as lawmakers and IHL consider ways to improve degree outcomes and workforce needs.

How Mississippi funds its institutions of higher learning was a topic of discussion during the first day of the Senate Committee on Universities and Colleges.

Committee members also heard updates on the status of the college savings programs as well as an update on recent graduation rates.

University Funding

How universities are funded with state monies was covered by LeAnne Robinson, Director of the Legislative Budget Office. Her presentation looked back over decades and described how a performance-based funding model was considered in the recent past.

After development of that model some 10 years ago, it was put on hold by the B

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