Accountability in American Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Kevin Carey, Mark Schneider (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Education Policy
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
On the Foundations of Standardized Assessment of College Outcomes and Estimating Value Added....Pages 7-31
Faculty Scholarly Productivity at American Research Universities....Pages 33-119
Student-Unit Record Systems and Postsecondary Accountability: Exploiting Emerging Data Resources....Pages 121-140
Higher-Education Finance and Accountability....Pages 141-163
Death of a University....Pages 165-188
What’s Governance Got to Do with It?....Pages 189-210
How College Rankings Are Going Global (and Why Their Spread Will Be Good for Higher Education)....Pages 211-249
The Politics of Higher Education....Pages 251-271
Accountability for Community Colleges: Moving Forward....Pages 273-293
Scaling Back Tenure: How Claims of Academic Freedom Limit Accountability in Higher Education....Pages 295-315
Policy Barriers to Postsecondary Cost Control....Pages 317-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-355

✦ Subjects

Higher Education; Educational Philosophy; Educational Policy and Politics