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Accountability: To Whom and For What?

 Accountability: To Whom and
 For  What

 Volume 2 / Number 1
 March 2006

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note—Does it Count? (PDF)
By Mitchell Vogel 


Success and Accountability

Searching for Success in Higher Education (PDF)
By Virginia Myers Kelly

The Investment Payoff: A 50-State Analysis of the Public and Private Benefits of Higher Education (PDF)    
By Sarah Krichels Goan and Alisa F. Cunningham

Embracing Accountability (PDF)
By Robert T. Mundhenk

The Academy Under Siege: Threats to Teaching and Learning in American Higher Education (PDF)
By Roy M. Vestrich

Higher Education, Government and Expectations of Academic Quality and Accountability: Where Do We Go from Here? (PDF)
By Judith S. Eaton

Graduation Rates as a Measure of College Accountability (PDF)
By Lawrence Gold and Lindsay Albert

The Rise and Fall of SPRE: A Look at Failed Efforts to Regulate Postsecondary Education in the 1990s (PDF)
By Terese Rainwater

Book Reviews

Book Review of Achieving Accountability in Higher Education: Balancing Public, Academic, and Market Demands by Joseph C. Burke (editor) (PDF)
By Kelly R. Risbey

Book Review of College Unranked: Affirming Educational Values in College Admissions by Lloyd Thacker (editor) (PDF)
By Greg Dubrow

Biographies of Contributors

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