“…As Jones (2016) illustrates in her multiple qualitative case study analysis of public HBCUs and performance funding, administrators at HBCUs believed that they were held to an unfair and unrealistic standard compared with their PWI counterparts due to characteristics of their institutions’ target student population. Public HBCUs also expressed distrust toward policymakers because representatives from their institutions were not present for the creation of PF policies (Boland, 2016; Jones, 2016). Several studies explain how, in many states, members of PWIs were included in such planning meetings, while public HBCUs were not represented.…”