Penn GSE professors to partner with AERA on higher ed conference

Associated Professor Manuel S. González Canché, Professor of Practice Joni Finney, GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education Laura W. Perna, and colleagues from Research for Action, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association were awarded a grant from the American Education Research Association. The grant will fund the first national research conference on performance- and outcomes-based funding in higher education, called “Performance Funding in Higher Education: Connecting Forty Years of Policy, Research, and Practice,” along with the first edited book on the topic.