Browsing by Subject "critical policy analysis"

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Texas House Bill 51: A coercive isomorphic force on Texas’s regional comprehensive universities, a matter of access & equity
(Texas Education Review, 2018) Bradley, D.
This backgrounder details the scope of the following critical forum concerning Texas House Bill 51 (TX HB 51) of the 81st Legislature, also referred to as the emerging research university bill. In its totality the journal issue considers the impact of TX HB 51 on the organizational behavior of comprehensive regional institutions in the state of Texas. The purpose of this backgrounder is to provide a theoretical framework to understand how each contributor adds to the narrative addressing the development, implementation, and impact of the legislation. Each author included in this critical forum offers a different theoretical lens as they examine the phenomenon of state-level, third party, governmental influence on public higher education, which I identify in this backgrounder as coercive isomorphism (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983).
Texas House Bill 51—An incognito performance-based funding policy: Implications for access and equity in Texas
(Texas Education Review, 2018) Bradley, D.; Doran, E.E.
This study focused on Texas House Bill 51 (TX HB 51) and its impact as a performance-based funding policy. Specifically, TX HB 51 incentivized regional comprehensive institutions towards high research activity in pursuit of academic excellence and nationally recognized prestige. Employing critical policy analysis, we considered the societal and economic costs of the state priorities that informed TX HB 51 for various stakeholders across the state. Through this lens, we offered a critical interrogation of the potentially negative economic and social impacts of this funding mechanism through a lens that considers historical and persistent racial inequity and power differentials across dominant and non-dominant groups within U.S. society at large.