June 23, 2006

Standards Inadequate for 2-Year Colleges

By KARIN FISCHER

State policy makers should reassess their higher-education accountability systems to ensure that they appropriately measure community colleges' diverse missions and differing definitions of student success, according to a new report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a nonprofit research organization.

The working paper, "Making Accountability Work: Community Colleges and Statewide Higher-Education Accountability Systems," examines eight states that have both strong networks

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