Inside Higher Ed: Accountability, Canadian Style
“It is essential to balance the government’s desire for accountability with the need to respect the dual cornerstones of the university: institutional autonomy and academic freedom.”
Sound familiar? It might to anyone who has been tracking the work of the U.S. Education Department commission studying American higher education, whose members’ oft-expressed desire to hold colleges more accountable for their performance in educating students effectively and efficiently has elicited occasional howls of protest from associations of colleges or faculty groups. But much as the above statement sounds like some of the things they’ve uttered, it came instead from a report released Monday by a faculty group in Ontario, about the Canadian province’s own fledgling accountability system.
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