Minnesota Colleges Seek Accountability by the Dashboard Light

By Paul Basken

When your car starts sputtering, it's easy to look at the dashboard and see if you're running out of gas. What if you could do the same with your local college?

Minnesota's system of state colleges and universities believes it can show the way.

After two years of preparation, the 32-college system unveiled on Tuesday its new Accountability Dashboard. The service is based on a Web site that displays a series of measures—tuition rates, graduates' employment