250 presidents, senior administrators, faculty leaders, and trustees gathered last week for The Chronicle of Higher Education's Executive Leadership Forum. What seems to worry these campus officials the most is proving the value of college to students, parents, and politicians at a time of rising tuition and tightening credit. In recent years, spurred in large part by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's National Commission on the Future of Higher Education, some people have called for a better measure: assessment tests.
Higher-education leaders have railed against such one-size-fits-all efforts, and those at the Chronicle forum heard perhaps one of the strongest arguments against a test from the opening speaker, Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New Mind. Read the whole article in the Chronicle at the library or request an email copy from the librarian.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education June 20 2008
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