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Title:
Accountability in American higher education / edited by Kevin Carey and Mark Schneider.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
vi, 355 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Educational accountability--United States.
Educational productivity--United States.
Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
Other Authors:
Carey, Kevin, 1970-
Schneider, Mark, 1948-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Policy barriers to postsecondary cost control / by Burck Smith. Faculty scholarly productivity at American research universities / by Lawrence B. Martin -- Student-unit record systems and postsecondary accountability: exploiting emerging data resources / by Peter T. Ewell -- Higher-education finance and accountability / by Bridget Terry Long -- Death of a university / by Kevin Carey -- What's governance got to do with it? / by Anne Neal, Erin O'Connor, Maurice Black -- How college rankings are going global (and why their spread will be good for higher education) / by Ben Wildavsky -- The politics of higher education / by Mark Schneider -- Accountability for community colleges: moving forward / by Sara Goldrick-Rab -- Scaling back tenure: how claims of academic freedom limit accountability in higher education / by Naomi Schaefer Riley -- Policy barriers to postsecondary cost control / by Burck Smith.
Series:
Education policy
ISBN:
0230110312 (alk. paper)
9780230110311 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)635463506
LCCN:
2010023193
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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