Educator urges mobility for degrees, proof of skills

by E Wayne Ross on November 12, 2006

The Salt Lake Tribune: Educator urges mobility for degrees, proof of skills

When today’s sixth-graders graduate from college, they’ll get a plastic card instead of a diploma. It will embody aspects of a degree, transcript, résumé and recommendation letter. At least that’s the vision of Clifford Adelman, a senior analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy who spoke to Utah’s higher education leaders Friday. He urged them to embrace a movement toward more transparent degrees that is well under way in Europe, but not in America.