EDUC 6155 WU Wk 6 Accountability Demands for Colleges and Universities Discussion
I’m trying to study for my Social Science course and I need some help to understand this question.
For this week’s Discussion, address the following questions:
- What are colleges and universities being asked to do to meet accountability demands?
- What are the potential benefits to institutions and their stakeholders who strive to meet these demands? What difficulties are they likely to encounter?
- What is likely to happen if institutions are unable or unwilling to meet these demands?
Posting Instructions
By Day 3
Post your initial response to these questions. Include references or examples from this week’s Learning Resources that support your ideas.
Focus On:
As you explore this week’s Learning Resources, focus on the reasons that accountability has recently become a major issue in higher education, and the strategies that institutions are using to demonstrate accountability. Are standards and measures being determined externally, or are institutions establishing these themselves? In particular, what are institutions doing to demonstrate that students are learning what they are supposed to learn?
Required Readings
Course Readings
Course Text: The Future of Higher Education: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market
- Chapter 8, “Who is Responsible for Student Learning?”
Salmi, J. (2009). The growing accountability agenda: Progress or mixed blessing? Higher Education Management & Policy, 21(1), 109–129.
Note: Use the resource below to help you formulate your posts and responses as you participate in the Discussion. Aligning your posts and responses to the grids in this resource will help you design higher-order thinking questions and responses.
Document: Response Analysis and Thought Process Grids (PDF)
Required Media
Video: Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2010). Understanding higher education: Higher education today: External forces. Baltimore: Author.