How to Establish Accountability in Higher Education

How to Establish Accountability in Higher Education: Question 7. What are the most important changes that must be implemented in the next five years to establish accountability in higher education?
Clearly the most important changes that must be made in the next five years are: We need good, solid baseline data. Missouri has always been a state that has relied on data. But the sophistication and level of data expected in todays world requires integration with the pipeline, the P-12 data systems, economic development and the workforce systems.
We are positioning ourselves to have a good, integrated baseline data system at the unit record level so that we understand not just individual students and student pathways, but student success and activities as well as lifelong learning and longitudinal impacts on the state from students in higher education.
[This is what] will restart this economy and make us competitive and bring us in a positive direction rather than the direction weve been going in, in terms of recession. We have to have creative assessment programs that provide evidence about real student learning gains and the value added by our higher education institutions. Its a big menu of things that have to take place in five years.

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