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Southern Accreditor Acts on Several Colleges
Signs of the economic downturn are evident many places you turn in higher education these days: in the exploding demand...
Opinion
The White Noise of Accountability
Cliff Adelman explores the rhetoric and practice surrounding an oft-used phrase -- and asks readers to consider six frameworks for thinking about the word before they next utter it.
Angst for an Accreditor
College presidents, faculty/staff unions and state education leaders rarely agree about anything. But mutual frustration with a regional accreditor has...
The Faculty Role in Assessment
Amid continuing debate, and sometimes disagreement, about the value and wisdom of measuring student learning outcomes in higher education, a...
Using Data to Drive Performance
ST. PAUL, MINN. -- Pockets of experimentation and potential change are cropping up all over the place in higher education...
What the Pledge Means
SEATTLE – Six influential community college organizations signed a commitment to boost student completion rates by 50 percent over the...
No Letup From Washington
CHICAGO -- If you closed your eyes and listened to the various highlighted speakers at the Higher Learning Commission's annual...
Imperfect Accountability
Voluntary systems crafted by colleges to respond to public demand for data fall well short of their stated goals, two advocacy groups argue.