November 12, 2007

State-University Association Adopts a Voluntary Template for Accountability Measures

By David L. Wheeler

New York

In one of the most sweeping responses to calls for accountability in higher education yet, a public-university association has adopted a template, called the College Portrait, that will give institutions the ability to share with outsiders similar data about such matters as students' academic progress.

Use of the portrait will be voluntary, but its approval on Sunday by the Board of Directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges marked the