Spellings's Legacy: a 'Long Overdue' Assessment of Colleges

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings talked with The Chronicle last week about her tenure.

Q. Your time in office may be remembered, as much as anything, for your Commission on the Future of Higher Education, which looked at ways to improve accountability. Do you leave office feeling colleges truly understand the need to be competitive on merit rather than on reputation?

A. Plenty of people in the higher-education community see, as I do, that we must provide better and more

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