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This chapter includes an overview of POBF policies in Texas and discusses how these policies affect the distribution of state resources to two-year MSIs in the state. Texas uses the Student Success Points model for incorporating POBF into the community college instructional appropriation. In addition to examining the components of the Student Success Points model, the chapter includes an analysis of funding trends before and after POBF and of MSI and non-MSI’s performance on each Student Success Points funding metric. The chapter concludes with recommendations for model design.
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In addition to the districts’ designations, some individual institutions are classified as MSIs, including St. Philip’s College (HSI and HBCU), Brookhaven College (HSI and AANAPISI), Northlake College (HSI and AANAPISI), and Richland College (HSI and AANAPISI). In this study, we focus on community college districts rather than individual institutions as the unit of analysis, since state policymakers allocate formula funding to districts.
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The Texas Legislature also adopted an outcomes-based funding model for the Texas State Technical College System (TSTC), which went into effect in 2014–2015. Since that system is funded through a separate methodology, TSTC is excluded from this analysis of funding for public community/junior colleges.
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One institution, Texas Southmost College, did not appear in the USDOE’s list of MSIs because, when the list was generated, this college was in a partnership with the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB). Texas Southmost College separated from UTB in 2011. We coded this college as an HSI since, in 2013, 94% of enrolled students were of Hispanic origin.
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Jones, T., Jones, S., Elliott, K.C., Russell Owens, L., Assalone, A.E., Gándara, D. (2017). Impacting the Whole Community: Two-Year Minority-Serving Institutions and Performance and Outcomes-Based Funding in Texas. In: Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49436-4_4
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