Inside Higher Ed: Too Much Change, or Not Enough?
As members of a federal commission studying higher education and those who have been following the panel’s work digested a second draft of its report, which was formally released Monday, there was widespread agreement that the paper treated higher education more gently than the first draft did. Whether that was a good thing or a bad thing was up for debate.
The Chronicle: Revised Report by Federal Commission Offers Less Harsh Critique of Higher Education
A revised draft report that was released on Monday by the Commission on the Future of Higher Education contains less criticism of the nation’s colleges than did the controversial first draft, issued two weeks ago.
The new version of the report incorporates revisions suggested by members of the 19-member panel and omits some of the most stinging barbs included in the original draft, including a sentence that blamed rising college costs on institutions’ failure “to take aggressive steps to improve institutional efficiency and productivity.”
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