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Increasing Accountability in American Higher Education

For decades, the higher education policy debate in the United States has focused on increasing access to colleges and universities. While this emphasis on access has led to significant gains in enrollment, far less attention has been paid to whether students ever receive a degree. As other industrial democracies have caught up with--and in some cases surpassed--the United States in the percentage of young adults with a college degree, some observers have begun to push for policies that emphasize college completion and create incentives for institutions to better serve their students. Three years after the Spellings Commission called for greater transparency and accountability in American higher education, however, there is still little consensus on how policymakers should reform the postsecondary system to ensure that colleges and universities are held accountable for retaining and graduating their students. This lack of progress reflects both the magnitude of the challenge and the failure of previous efforts to examine how the various pieces of the system—from measurement of student outcomes and data quality to faculty productivity to cost to accreditation and quality control—may facilitate or hinder meaningful accountability. AEI Event: Increasing Accountability in American Higher Education, November 17, 2009 Subscribe AEI's YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/AEIVideos... Like us on Facebook   / aeionline   Follow us on Twitter   / aei   For More Information http://www.aei.org Increasing Accountability in American Higher Education Third-party photos, graphics, and video clips in this video may have been cropped or reframed. Music in this video may have been recut from its original arrangement and timing. In the event this video uses Creative Commons assets: If not noted in the description, titles for Creative Commons assets used in this video can be found at the link provided after each asset. The use of third-party photos, graphics, video clips, and/or music in this video does not constitute an endorsement from the artists and producers licensing those materials. AEI operates independently of any political party and does not take institutional positions on any issues. AEI scholars, fellows, and their guests frequently take positions on policy and other issues. When they do, they speak for themselves and not for AEI or its trustees or other scholars or employees. More information on AEI research integrity can be found here: http://www.aei.org/about/ #news #politics #government #education