Michael K Mclendon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3092744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael K Mclendon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclendon |
| SIGNATURE | MCLENDON M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3892-7157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Governor and the State Higher Education Executive Officer: How the Relationship Shapes State Financial Support for Higher Education
Researchers have shown renewed interest during the past decade in the relationships among politics, policy, finance, and governance of higher education at the state level. Little attention, however, has been paid to state higher education executive officers (SHEEOs), the individuals responsible for leading the agencies that oversee higher education in the 50 states. Of noteworthy interest is the fact that the states vary in regard to the nature o…
State Policies and Higher Education Attainment
This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher education. We provide an overview of U.S. state policy innovations that have occurred in recent years and we identify both the challenges and opportunities associated with studying public policy and higher education attainment in the states. The article concludes by outlining the perspectives of …
Insights and Implications for State Policy-Makers
Using a range of data and analytic approaches, the articles in this volume offer insights for understanding how state policy can increase higher education attainment and close gaps in attainment across groups. This concluding article begins by addressing the relationships between public policy and performance that cut across the volume. We then offer recommendations for state policy leaders—concrete steps that governors, legislators, and other po…
Financing College Opportunity: Factors Influencing State Spending on Student Financial Aid and Campus Appropriations, 1990 through 2010
Some states invest relatively heavily in financial aid programs that benefit lower-income citizens, while other states concentrate their investment in programs that benefit students from higher-income backgrounds. States also vary in their levels of direct appropriations to campuses, a form of public subsidy that has long been viewed as benefitting middle-income citizens. What factors influence states to allocate higher education subsidies in a m…
State-Funded “Eminent Scholars” Programs: University Faculty Recruitment as an Emerging Policy Instrument
Over the past two decades, state governments have increasingly invested in programs to recruit accomplished scientists from elsewhere to university positions. This event history analysis suggests that an intriguing mix of comparative state disadvantage and leveragable existing research resources is associated with the likelihood of states adopting such programs
Legislative Agenda Setting for In-State Resident Tuition Policies: Immigration, Representation, and Educational Access
Few recent issues in higher education have been as contentious as that of legislation extending in-state college tuition benefits to undocumented students, initiatives now known as in-state resident tuition (ISRT) policies. Building on several strands of literature in political science and higher education studies, we analyze the effects of demographic, economic, political, and policy conditions on the likelihood of these initiatives becoming pos…
The Adoption of Prepaid Tuition and Savings Plans in the American States: An Event History Analysis
Uniting Secondary and Postsecondary Education: An Event History Analysis of State Adoption of Dual Enrollment Policies
This study, as the first empirical test of P–16 policy antecedents, reports the findings from an event history analysis of the origins of state dual enrollment policies adopted between 1976 and 2005. First, what characteristics of states are associated with the adoption of these policies? Second, to what extent do conventional theories on policy adoption help explain the rise of dual enrollment? We find state political characteristics, organizati…
Partisans, Professionals, and Power: The Role of Political Factors in State Higher Education Funding
Academic Turnarounds: Restoring Vitality to Challenged American Colleges and Universities
The Enactment of Reforms in State Governance of Higher Education: Testing the Political Instability Hypothesis
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Program in Higher Education Leadership and Policy at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Russ Deaton is Director of Fiscal Affairs at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. James C. Hearn is Professor of Higher Education in the Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia.Russ Deaton…
Called to Account: Analyzing the Origins and Spread of State Performance-Accountability Policies for Higher Education
Employing a theoretical framework derived from the policy innovation and diffusion literature, this research examines how variations over time and across state sociopolitical systems influence states’ adoption of accountability policies in higher education. Specifically, factors influencing the adoption of three kinds of performance-accountability policies for public higher education in the period 1979–2002 were investigated. Findings from the ev…
Mandated Openness in Public Higher Education: A Field Study of State Sunshine Laws and Institutional Governance
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He specializes in state governance, politics, and public policy of higher education. His most recent work examines the origins and spread of new accountability, governance, and financing policies for higher education.James C. HearnJames C. Hearn is Professor of Publ…
State Postsecondary Policy Innovation: Politics, Competition, and the Interstate Migration of Policy Ideas
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University.Donald E. HellerDonald E. Heller is Associate Professor of Education and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University.Steven P. YoungSteven P. Young is a Doc…
The Politics of State Higher Education Governance Reform
During the 1990s, state governments considered in excess of 100 initiatives to reorganize, restructure, or "reform" higher education governance arrangements. The recent wave of governance change has revealed an important insight about reform activity: Large-scale redesign of a state's higher education governance system occurs in a distinctively and decidedly political context--namely, at the intersection of legislative institutions, state higher …
Setting the Governmental Agenda for State Decentralization of Higher Education
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is assistant professor of public policy and higher education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Partisans, Professionals, and Power: The Role of Political Factors in State Higher Education Funding
State Postsecondary Policy Innovation: Politics, Competition, and the Interstate Migration of Policy Ideas
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University.Donald E. HellerDonald E. Heller is Associate Professor of Education and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University.Steven P. YoungSteven P. Young is a Doc…
Setting the Governmental Agenda for State Decentralization of Higher Education
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is assistant professor of public policy and higher education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Legislative Agenda Setting for In-State Resident Tuition Policies: Immigration, Representation, and Educational Access
Few recent issues in higher education have been as contentious as that of legislation extending in-state college tuition benefits to undocumented students, initiatives now known as in-state resident tuition (ISRT) policies. Building on several strands of literature in political science and higher education studies, we analyze the effects of demographic, economic, political, and policy conditions on the likelihood of these initiatives becoming pos…
Financing College Opportunity: Factors Influencing State Spending on Student Financial Aid and Campus Appropriations, 1990 through 2010
Some states invest relatively heavily in financial aid programs that benefit lower-income citizens, while other states concentrate their investment in programs that benefit students from higher-income backgrounds. States also vary in their levels of direct appropriations to campuses, a form of public subsidy that has long been viewed as benefitting middle-income citizens. What factors influence states to allocate higher education subsidies in a m…
The Enactment of Reforms in State Governance of Higher Education: Testing the Political Instability Hypothesis
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Program in Higher Education Leadership and Policy at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Russ Deaton is Director of Fiscal Affairs at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. James C. Hearn is Professor of Higher Education in the Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia.Russ Deaton…
Uniting Secondary and Postsecondary Education: An Event History Analysis of State Adoption of Dual Enrollment Policies
This study, as the first empirical test of P–16 policy antecedents, reports the findings from an event history analysis of the origins of state dual enrollment policies adopted between 1976 and 2005. First, what characteristics of states are associated with the adoption of these policies? Second, to what extent do conventional theories on policy adoption help explain the rise of dual enrollment? We find state political characteristics, organizati…
The Politics of State Higher Education Governance Reform
During the 1990s, state governments considered in excess of 100 initiatives to reorganize, restructure, or "reform" higher education governance arrangements. The recent wave of governance change has revealed an important insight about reform activity: Large-scale redesign of a state's higher education governance system occurs in a distinctively and decidedly political context--namely, at the intersection of legislative institutions, state higher …
The Governor and the State Higher Education Executive Officer: How the Relationship Shapes State Financial Support for Higher Education
Researchers have shown renewed interest during the past decade in the relationships among politics, policy, finance, and governance of higher education at the state level. Little attention, however, has been paid to state higher education executive officers (SHEEOs), the individuals responsible for leading the agencies that oversee higher education in the 50 states. Of noteworthy interest is the fact that the states vary in regard to the nature o…
State-Funded “Eminent Scholars” Programs: University Faculty Recruitment as an Emerging Policy Instrument
Over the past two decades, state governments have increasingly invested in programs to recruit accomplished scientists from elsewhere to university positions. This event history analysis suggests that an intriguing mix of comparative state disadvantage and leveragable existing research resources is associated with the likelihood of states adopting such programs
Mandated Openness in Public Higher Education: A Field Study of State Sunshine Laws and Institutional Governance
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He specializes in state governance, politics, and public policy of higher education. His most recent work examines the origins and spread of new accountability, governance, and financing policies for higher education.James C. HearnJames C. Hearn is Professor of Publ…
State Policies and Higher Education Attainment
This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher education. We provide an overview of U.S. state policy innovations that have occurred in recent years and we identify both the challenges and opportunities associated with studying public policy and higher education attainment in the states. The article concludes by outlining the perspectives of …
Academic Turnarounds: Restoring Vitality to Challenged American Colleges and Universities
The Politics of State Higher Education Governance Reform
During the 1990s, state governments considered in excess of 100 initiatives to reorganize, restructure, or "reform" higher education governance arrangements. The recent wave of governance change has revealed an important insight about reform activity: Large-scale redesign of a state's higher education governance system occurs in a distinctively and decidedly political context--namely, at the intersection of legislative institutions, state higher …
Setting the Governmental Agenda for State Decentralization of Higher Education
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is assistant professor of public policy and higher education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
State Postsecondary Policy Innovation: Politics, Competition, and the Interstate Migration of Policy Ideas
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University.Donald E. HellerDonald E. Heller is Associate Professor of Education and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University.Steven P. YoungSteven P. Young is a Doc…
Called to Account: Analyzing the Origins and Spread of State Performance-Accountability Policies for Higher Education
Employing a theoretical framework derived from the policy innovation and diffusion literature, this research examines how variations over time and across state sociopolitical systems influence states’ adoption of accountability policies in higher education. Specifically, factors influencing the adoption of three kinds of performance-accountability policies for public higher education in the period 1979–2002 were investigated. Findings from the ev…
Mandated Openness in Public Higher Education: A Field Study of State Sunshine Laws and Institutional Governance
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He specializes in state governance, politics, and public policy of higher education. His most recent work examines the origins and spread of new accountability, governance, and financing policies for higher education.James C. HearnJames C. Hearn is Professor of Publ…
The Enactment of Reforms in State Governance of Higher Education: Testing the Political Instability Hypothesis
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael K. McLendonMichael K. McLendon is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Program in Higher Education Leadership and Policy at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Russ Deaton is Director of Fiscal Affairs at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. James C. Hearn is Professor of Higher Education in the Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia.Russ Deaton…
Uniting Secondary and Postsecondary Education: An Event History Analysis of State Adoption of Dual Enrollment Policies
This study, as the first empirical test of P–16 policy antecedents, reports the findings from an event history analysis of the origins of state dual enrollment policies adopted between 1976 and 2005. First, what characteristics of states are associated with the adoption of these policies? Second, to what extent do conventional theories on policy adoption help explain the rise of dual enrollment? We find state political characteristics, organizati…
Partisans, Professionals, and Power: The Role of Political Factors in State Higher Education Funding
Academic Turnarounds: Restoring Vitality to Challenged American Colleges and Universities
The Adoption of Prepaid Tuition and Savings Plans in the American States: An Event History Analysis
Legislative Agenda Setting for In-State Resident Tuition Policies: Immigration, Representation, and Educational Access
Few recent issues in higher education have been as contentious as that of legislation extending in-state college tuition benefits to undocumented students, initiatives now known as in-state resident tuition (ISRT) policies. Building on several strands of literature in political science and higher education studies, we analyze the effects of demographic, economic, political, and policy conditions on the likelihood of these initiatives becoming pos…
State-Funded “Eminent Scholars” Programs: University Faculty Recruitment as an Emerging Policy Instrument
Over the past two decades, state governments have increasingly invested in programs to recruit accomplished scientists from elsewhere to university positions. This event history analysis suggests that an intriguing mix of comparative state disadvantage and leveragable existing research resources is associated with the likelihood of states adopting such programs
State Policies and Higher Education Attainment
This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher education. We provide an overview of U.S. state policy innovations that have occurred in recent years and we identify both the challenges and opportunities associated with studying public policy and higher education attainment in the states. The article concludes by outlining the perspectives of …
Insights and Implications for State Policy-Makers
Using a range of data and analytic approaches, the articles in this volume offer insights for understanding how state policy can increase higher education attainment and close gaps in attainment across groups. This concluding article begins by addressing the relationships between public policy and performance that cut across the volume. We then offer recommendations for state policy leaders—concrete steps that governors, legislators, and other po…
Financing College Opportunity: Factors Influencing State Spending on Student Financial Aid and Campus Appropriations, 1990 through 2010
Some states invest relatively heavily in financial aid programs that benefit lower-income citizens, while other states concentrate their investment in programs that benefit students from higher-income backgrounds. States also vary in their levels of direct appropriations to campuses, a form of public subsidy that has long been viewed as benefitting middle-income citizens. What factors influence states to allocate higher education subsidies in a m…
The Governor and the State Higher Education Executive Officer: How the Relationship Shapes State Financial Support for Higher Education
Researchers have shown renewed interest during the past decade in the relationships among politics, policy, finance, and governance of higher education at the state level. Little attention, however, has been paid to state higher education executive officers (SHEEOs), the individuals responsible for leading the agencies that oversee higher education in the 50 states. Of noteworthy interest is the fact that the states vary in regard to the nature o…
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