2020 Volume 23 Pages 53-74
This paper examines the relationship between university evaluation and resource allocation. The National University Corporation Evaluation Committee has introduced an evaluation system for national universities, and the government has developed an evaluation system based on a novel framework in recent years. We examine the relationship between resource allocation and the impact of competitive resource allocation on national and private universities. Differences between Japan and the United States are evaluated by examining the relationship between state-centered evaluation and resource allocation in the United States and the problems of resource allocation in relation to evaluation in Japan.
In the United States, unlike Japan, evaluation and resource allocation for public universities and community colleges are conducted in each state. In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's central control system targets national universities nationwide and subsidizes private universities with common indicators. A significant difference in resource allocation based on evaluation is that in the United States, it is targeted to public universities and community colleges alone at the state level, and private universities are not subject to evaluation or resource allocation.
The characteristics of resource allocation in Japanese institutions of higher education are based on university reform through the introduction of common indicators, regardless of whether they are public or private. Here, it is characteristic that university reform is promoted by governmental control and management rather than bottom-up within universities. Although the PF index is considered an outcome index in the United States, faculty members voluntarily promote educational reform to achieve these outcomes.</p><p> It is necessary to discuss educational missions based on the founding spirit and the evaluation of individuality. The allocation of resources through evaluation is becoming more common worldwide, and the associated challenges are great.
