Charles Miller is a leader in the K-12 school accountability movement in TX. It seems she is the one that is saying our colleges and universities need to do a better job of measuring what they do AND providing the results to the public.
Uh, yea! Public universities....measure results...let the public know. Sounds like a great idea to me.
Presently the US' college and university system is so decentralized that such an overhaul would be a massive undertaking.
Some leaders in higher ed think Miller is on to something but balk because they say they need "more public support." Hang on...public universities have public support. We pay the costs there, don't we?
Our higher ed schools should be held accountable - for spending, for student outcomes, for...well, everything.
After all, it is my money they are spending.
What do you think?
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Well, of course we should hold universities and colleges accountable for results. Listen, I hold my kids accountable for their grades in college, so why wouldn't I want to see results from the people I'm actually sending the tuition to? I don't want to pay for my kids' degrees just because they're each supposed to have one; I'm happy to pay for something that actually makes a difference in their lives on a practical/emotional/artistic/intellectual level.
How, exactly, do you measure that? I don't know. Maybe by figuring that one out, the academics will prove to the rest of us that they're worth the ever-growing pots of gold we send to their employers every year.
Posted by: steve@stevefarber.com | July 29, 2006 10:54 PM | Permalink to Comment