Newsroom

I first became interested in the history of efforts to evaluate teaching and learning while co-chairing Wheaton College’s assessment committee. I learned that skeptical colleagues sometimes perceived evaluation to be an outgrowth of a campaign to disempower...

No one is happy with accreditation: Institutions feel burdened, policymakers are frustrated, consumers are unprotected, employer needs are unmet, and accreditors are under fire. Because of this, there is no shortage of recommendations for how to get it right...

Colleges face pressures from all sides to improve their performance in a wide range of areas. The federal government highlights student outcomes for low-performing colleges and threatens to strip student financial aid eligibility from the worst institutions...