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Universities are indeed accountable. But we in higher education need to seize the initiative in defining what we are accountable for. We are asked to report graduation rates, graduate school admission statistics, scores on standardized tests intended to assess the “value added?? of years in college, research dollars, numbers of faculty publications. But such measures cannot themselves capture the achievements, let alone the aspirations of universities. Many of these metrics are important to know, and they shed light on particular parts of our undertaking. But our purposes are far more ambitious and our accountability thus...
Alex Slack is wrong when he writes in his dissenting opinion (“No Value Added?? Dec. 1) that HBS “administrators...did not consult the school’s student leaders until yesterday.” In fact, Professor Rick Ruback, the chair of the MBA Program, was getting together with students long before that. He talked with the student Senate about this matter on Oct. 25. On Nov. 10, he met with the Student Association Academic Committee (the standing committee focusing on these kinds of issues), which recommended a course of action that...
...letter fails to recognize that there is a direct connection between bonuses and value added to Harvard,” he said. “If you don’t pay the $17.5 million bonus, you don’t get the approximately $175 million in value added??so their math is a little perverse...
...unreasonable to think that the education quality or “value added?? of a school can be quantified by future earnings and graduate school admissions. The purpose of higher education is to advance the search for knowledge—higher MCAT scores and larger starting salaries are not good indicators for this...
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