Accountability in American Higher Education

1. Introduction
Kevin Carey, Mark Schneider

2. On the Foundations of Standardized Assessment of College Outcomes and Estimating Value Added
Jeffrey Steedle

3. Faculty Scholarly Productivity at American Research Universities
Lawrence B. Martin

4. Student-Unit Record Systems and Postsecondary Accountability: Exploiting Emerging Data Resources
Peter T. Ewell

5. Higher-Education Finance and Accountability
Terry Long Bridget

6. Death of a University
Kevin Carey

7. What’s Governance Got to Do with It?
Anne D. Neal, Erin O’Connor, Maurice Black

8. How College Rankings Are Going Global (and Why Their Spread Will Be Good for Higher Education)
Ben Wildavsky

9. The Politics of Higher Education
Mark Schneider

10. Accountability for Community Colleges: Moving Forward
Sara Goldrick-Rab

11. Scaling Back Tenure: How Claims of Academic Freedom Limit Accountability in Higher Education
Naomi Schaefer Riley

12. Policy Barriers to Postsecondary Cost Control
Burck Smith

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