This October, the California Community College Student Success Task Force released draft recommendations that have attracted considerable attention and debate about whether or not they are feasible in scope and will actually do well to improve student success.
Disinvestment Is the Enemy
Posted on 27 September 2011
Today’s report by Complete College America about low college completion rates is notable for its analysis of data in 33 states that tracks all students attending institutions of higher education. But will solutions based on efficiency alone better serve our students?
AFT’s Report Calls for More Collaboration To Improve Student Success
Posted on 04 April 2011
A report released today by the AFT says that to increase student success in higher education, there must be greater opportunities for collaboration between university and college faculty and staff, and their institution’s administrators and other key stakeholders.
Student Success: AFT Higher Ed’s Committment
Posted on 12 January 2011
Learn about the work that AFT Higher Education has engaged in–and will continue–on student success and accountability.
Student Success 2010: The Year in Review
Posted on 05 January 2011
The higher education accountability and assessment bandwagon got a lot heavier in 2010 with the Department of Education, foundations, think tanks, and other organizations pushing everything from higher college degree attainment to the adoption of common metrics to uniformly measure progress and success to even ideas like taking the faculty member out of the classroom altogether in the name of student success.
In a series of posts, we’ll revisit what has come to pass in 2010. Today we begin with federal initiatives, and over the course of the next several days, come back to What Should Count to read our accounts of foundation and think tank work, institutional responses, and related research and reports.
In The News
Posted on July 19, 2011
Frustrated with the federal graduation rate formula, a researcher at the University of Alaska designed a new way to capture student achievement that follows all entering students for 10 years, with the idea that it will uncover very different rates of student success.
Posted on July 19, 2011
If colleges want to increase faculty participation in assessment, according to a report released by NILOA, they should pay faculty members for their time and include assessment activities in their contracts and annual performance reviews.
Posted on June 1, 2011
Among the recommendations: Fix pay inequities through collective bargaining, make sure women have a voice in their workplaces and in their unions, and expand family-friendly policies.
What's Your Experience?
Accreditation
Posted on 22 April 2010
Is your campus going through the (re)accreditation process right now, or has it gone through it recently? We’d like to know more about your experience as well as what we can offer you to help guide you through this process.
What's Your Experience?
Tell Us What You Think
Posted on 05 April 2010
We hope that this website will provide all who visit with useful information about the accountability movement and will serve as a good way for educators to engage in robust discussions about accountability and student success.
What's Your Experience?
Tests of Student Learning and Engagement
Posted on 05 April 2010
Do you know of any student engagement tests or learning assessments conducted at your institution? If so, how are they used at your institution and what do you think of their value?
What's Your Experience?
Student Learning and Success
Posted on 05 April 2010
What are the ways in which you assess student learning in your classroom? If you use multiple measures of assessment, what is the “blend” that you consider best and why?
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