Inside Higher Ed: Margaret Spellings, Where Are You?
Walking from meeting room to meeting room at this week’s annual conference of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and scanning the program, it was impossible not to be struck by the fact that a good half of the hundreds of sessions have embedded in their titles the words “student outcomes,” “assessment,” or “accountability.”
Granted, that may not be surprising given that, as noted by Steven D. Crow, the commission’s departing president, the theme of the meeting was “Finding Common Ground: Accreditation, Assessment and Accountability.”
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