Commission on the Future of Higher Ed

Commission on the Future of Higher Ed

May 06, 2013
Reboot of Voluntary System of Accountability aims to give institutions more flexibility in reporting student learning -- but new options (including non-standardized one) may not have expanded enough to win many converts.

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October 27, 2015
What might the new head of a leading university system do as president? Johann Neem looks at her federal commission's report for clues, and is not heartened.
May 6, 2013
Reboot of Voluntary System of Accountability aims to give institutions more flexibility in reporting student learning -- but new options (including non-standardized one) may not have expanded enough to win many converts.
September 9, 2010
Efforts to define and measure learning and other indicators of colleges' success will fall short if they occur outside the academy and ignore the faculty, A. Lee Fritschler argues.
December 15, 2009
Under renewed scrutiny about student degree attainment, presidents of historically black colleges say current measurements don't capture truth about outcomes.
November 18, 2009
Policy makers urged to focus on incentives their rules create for colleges.
November 3, 2009
Center for American Progress, which has Obama's ear, proposes data-driven consumer protection office to safeguard students' interest in higher education.
October 19, 2009
As head of the Teagle Foundation for six years, Robert Connor didn't have anywhere near the money of the Lumina Foundation for Education or the visibility of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But that didn't stop him and the foundation from working tirelessly, through grants to colleges and many "convenings" of higher education officials, to encourage the "systematic assessment" of what students learn.
October 9, 2009
Ten years after the National Center for Academic Transformation began course redesigns, early adopters applaud learning outcomes but remain ambivalent about the cost reduction.
October 7, 2009
Years after assessment initiatives won favor at many four-year institutions, Gates and Lumina foundations fund effort to create universal system for two-year institutions to monitor and improve student success.
September 28, 2009
U.S. Senate plan would have states collect students' test scores and other information and link it to wide range of other systems.

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