October 5, 2007

Administration Denies Designs on Colleges

By PAUL BASKEN

College leaders are being too hard on the Bush administration, its top higher-education official says.

Speaking to accreditation officials who gathered in Washington last month for a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the under secretary of education, Sara Martinez Tucker, said college leaders had been wrong in characterizing the administration's efforts to better measure their institutions' performance as an attempt to assert more federal control over their