Should society be holding higher education accountable in the way that it tries to hold K-12 accountable?
KUH: Higher education should and is being held more accountable. You and others characterize graduation rates as miserable. Well, they’re about where they’ve always been and there’s some evidence that they may be higher than we’ve thought all along. Keep in mind that we are attracting, today, students who are much more mobile and who are attending two and sometimes three institutions at the same time. The federal government recently reported that 59% of the class of 2000 attended two or more institutions. Who’s responsible for educating those students? Which institution do we hold accountable for what students know or don’t know? And we are admitting and educating a much wider, deeper, diverse pool and more of them than at any point in history. It’s really a modern miracle, frankly, that our graduation rates have not gone down given how wide open the door is. Think about it. Think about the fact that these students come from so many diverse backgrounds. On some campuses English is the
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