“We should be careful and cautious about making this a quantitative exercise,” she says.
In its new HEA reauthorization bill, the Senate seems to be taking at least some of that advice. The bill would require accreditors to make sure that colleges use empirical evidence and external indicators “as appropriate” to report on student retention, course completion and graduation rates.
Four-year institutions also would report on graduates who enroll in post-baccalaureate institutions, while career and technical programs would provide data on job placement rates for students, the bill states.
But the legislation also notes that accreditors may judge success based on “different standards for different institutions.”
That bill has cleared the Senate’s education panel and is now headed to the Senate floor. The U.S. House of Representatives has not yet approved a comprehensive HEA renewal bill.
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