Kevin James Dougherty
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Kevin James Dougherty

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Associate Professor, Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis, and Senior Researcher, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University. Offering courses on higher education policy, high school to college transition policy, college access and success, and community colleges. Current research interests: * The origins, implementation, and organizational and student impacts of performance funding for higher education institutions by state governments. This is part of a larger interest in the use of market and quasi-market forces to regulate public agencies. * The role of information disparities in affecting student outcomes in education: How divergences in student pathways through K-16 education arise from differences by social background in the amount and quality of information students and parents have about the nature and importance of particular educational choices. Major publications: * The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations (with Rebecca S. Natow), Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2015. * Performance Funding for Higher Education: What Are the Mechanisms? What Are the Impacts? (with Vikash Reddy). ASHE Higher Education Report: Vol. 39, Number 2 (June 2013), pp. 1-133. * Community College Missions in the 21st Century (Edited with Barbara Townsend). New Directions for Community Colleges #136 (November 2006). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. * The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. Winner of the Willard Waller Award for the Outstanding Book in the Sociology of Education in the years 1994-1996.
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