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Ohio Board of Regents offers new proposal to increase autonomy of public institutions
As Inside Higher Ed reports, Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro last week unveiled a new initiative to exempt the state's 14 public universities from a variety of government regulations, in the hopes that privatization will encourage needed innovation and improvement. Under the proposal, institutions would be freed from state health and safety codes, among other regulations, and instead receive performance reviews using a set of metrics like graduation and retention rates and affordability. Petro and the Regents deserve praise for exploring ways to give institutions autonomy in return for accountability: yet the acid test will be how effectively the institutions increase student academic success. As they now stand, the current measures place inadequate focus on student learning gains. There are several highly valid instruments, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), that measure gains in core collegiate skills and literacies. Rewarding institutions for success in student learning should be on the table.
Posted by Max Brindle on August 15, 2011 at August 15, 2011 04:40 PM
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