State Universities Adopt Accountability Measures

In one of the most sweeping responses yet to calls for accountability in higher education, a public-university association has adopted a template, called the College Portrait, that will allow institutions to share with outsiders online data about such matters as students' academic progress.

Use of the portrait will be voluntary, but its approval this month by the Board of Directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges marked the beginning of a

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