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Assessing the Commission
The work of the Spellings Commission continues to reverberate. Inside Higher Ed has an article today about the latest assessment of the Commission -- this one a report by the National Association of College and University Business Officers that praises the national, blue-ribbon body for identifying many of the most important problems facing our country's colleges and universities. The report in turn criticizes what it sees as a combative tone in the Commission's statements and directives, as well as the overly defensive response by higher education representatives. In part because of that response, NACUBO finds that the higher education community has not been successful in "easing disquiet among many external constituencies about higher education's presumed insularity and indifference to concerns of the day."
ACTA has also examined the work of the Commission -- and praised its call for "urgent reform." Sharing NACUBO's desire to foster cooperative implementation of that reform, we've issued two reports of our own -- for policymakers and trustees -- underscoring constructive steps that can be made to address the Commission's concerns.
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on July 15, 2008 at July 15, 2008 05:50 PM
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