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Disclosure and Damage: Can Accreditation Provide One without the Other? Higher Education Act
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Eaton, Judith S.; Fryshman, Bernard; Hope, Samuel; Scanlon, Elise; Crow, Steve – Change, 2005
For accrediting organizations, informing the public about higher education quality has emerged as perhaps the most vexatious, complex, and controversial issue in the current reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. The proposal is vexing because society is expanding the zone open to the public at the price of private space. It is complex…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Confidentiality, Educational Policy, Higher Education
What Should Reauthorization Be About?
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Lingenfelter, Paul E.; Lenth, Charles S. – Change, 2005
Every six years or so, reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965 provides the opportunity for Congress--and the nation--to examine the current conditions and consider the future needs of higher education. While reauthorization tends to focus on funding and on "fixing" postsecondary education's most visible problems, the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Cost Effectiveness, Leadership, Educational Policy
Affordability: Obtaining and Making Sense of Information about How Students, Families, and States Pay for Higher Education
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Finney, Joni E.; Kelly, Patrick J. – Change, 2004
Affordability--the ability of students and other funders to contribute to the support of colleges and universities--is a topic of increasing salience. In this Resource Review, we examine the affordability of college from two perspectives: from that of students and their families, and from that of the state. We also identify many references to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Aid, Resource Allocation, Public Policy