For states, the early 1990s were thenhalcyon days of performance measures.nWithin five years, more thanntwo-thirds of the states had establishedncomparative performance indicatornsystems for their public colleges andnuniversities and results were presentednpublicly. For the most part, thenstatistics used were readily accessiblenand easy to count—things like graduationnrates, instructional costs pernstudent, or average admissions testnscores. In many states, money was tiednto measures in the form of performancenfunding. And virtually all ofnthem yielded weighty accountabilitynreports, issued annually or biennially,nthat presented long columns of numbersnthat few people ever looked at.
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