September 5, 2008

Congress Shows Colleges They're Not Off the Hook on Accountability

By KELLY FIELD

When President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law in 2002, formally linking federal aid to student assessment, many colleges watched with trepidation, worrying that they would be next.

So far those fears haven't materialized. Sure, there have been some scares for institutions worried about stricter government oversight, such as when Charles Miller said about two years ago that the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, which he chaired,

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