à la VSA?

Here's a story from today's Inside Higher Ed about an effort to develop a new national accountability system for community colleges that is inevitably being compared to the Voluntary System of Accountability for public four-year institutions. A voice that's prominently featured in this story and in this discussion is that of Eileen Baccus, a good friend of my university, whose very sensible comments from the story follow:

Baccus reiterated that it is important for the colleges themselves to be first to define accountability for community colleges. With growing federal and private sector interest in community colleges, she said, there will be accountability systems created. "Do we want someone else to impose these measures, or do we want to say that here are measures we can endorse?" she said.

And now, for the rest of the story...