In 2000 the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Board of Governors approved the original System Performance Funding Program. This program was then aligned with the System Accountability Plan (SAP) in 2002. While this annual report presents each campus with the opportunity to present its qualitative achievements for the year, the focus of the SAP is the 17 Accountability Measures (62 sub measures) upon which the PASSHE institutions are evaluated. Each campus is evaluated based upon:

•    Institutional Target Attainment (or Baseline) whereby each University is evaluated on each measure relative to each institution's unique goals as established by trend analysis.

•    Benchmark Comparisons whereby each University is evaluated relative to a peer group. Peer groups vary by measure and institution.

•    System Performance Target Attainment whereby each University is evaluated relative to goals set for the entire PASSHE.

These comparisons are used to evaluate the PASSHE institutions and to determine the amount of performance based funding each campus receives each year. In 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 Millersville University received $2.8 million dollars and $4.5 million dollars in performance based funding, respectively. MU received the most such funding of any PASSHE institution both years.

Linked below is a summary of the Accountability Measures presented to all three school councils in Fall 2005. This presentation was generated to:

•    educate the campus on the strategic goals of the PASSHE; and,
•    to discuss strategies for improving performance.

Please address any questions you may have to the Office of Institutional Research.

SAP Measures for Council of Trustees - October 2006