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Shining a Light on Productivity, Part I
Where there is a will, there is a way. The folks at the Lumina Foundation are surely helping to build that will -- and to point the way -- thanks to their Productivity Initiative and a terrific National Productivity Conference in Indianapolis this week. ACTA is pleased to be a national partner in their effort to improve student success. And we were heartened by the creativity and commitment of legislators, administrators and state policymakers at the conference. As ACTA has been saying for some time, the "same old" is simply not good enough if we are going to ensure greater student attainment of high quality postsecondary education. In the next few days, I'll be outlining just a few of the superb take-aways from this conference, of real interest to policymakers and trustees who are going to be navigating the "new normal."
Lumina offers a brand new publication called "Navigating the 'New Normal'" which includes recommendations and ideas based on studies undertaken by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems in conjunction with the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability. As the report's conclusion says: "After centuries of excellence and decades of cyclical recessions, higher education has developed some bad habits. . . . Today the need for fundamental changes is inescapable."
We'll explore some of the reports recommendations soon.
Posted by Anne D. Neal on November 17, 2010 at November 17, 2010 04:19 PM
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