March 22, 2002

Report Says Undergraduate Education Has Improved in Recent Years

By ROBIN WILSON

A national commission that blasted American research universities in 1998 for ignoring undergraduate education says in a follow-up report that they have undergone a "sea change" in the emphasis they put on teaching undergraduates.

The commission surveyed the nation's 123 research universities last spring to find out whether they had made progress on 10 recommendations that the original panel, called the Boyer Commission, made in its report, "Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A

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