louisiana university funding formula

The Louisiana Board of Regents is promoting a 'performance-based' funding model for the universities in the Louisiana system. In short, the funding each university will receive is based on: The percent of students that graduate Graduating more non-traditional students and minorities Accepting and graduating more students that transfer from community colleges Here is my main problem with this funding formula. Don't we want to do these things anyway? Isn't this suggesting that we are not trying to do these things and if we do try, we will get more funding. Actually, it is not about trying…