The Gates Foundation and the Institute for Higher Education Policy have entered into a partnership aimed at developing a framework to improve US higher education data, and to include non-traditional students. The framework focuses on performance, efficiency, and equity across five domains: access, progression, completion, cost, and post-college outcomes, and it is hoped that all tertiary institutions will the fall be expected to report this data to a national database. While many universities already collect this type of data, the current “culture of blame”, which focuses on failing schools rather than ways to improve, means that many schools fear sharing it.
The Gates Foundation and the Institute for Higher Education Policy have entered into a partnership aimed at developing a framework to improve US higher education data, and to include non-traditional students. The framework focuses on performance, efficiency, and equity across five domains: access, progression, completion, cost, and post-college outcomes, and it is hoped that all tertiary institutions will one day be expected to report this data to a national database. While many universities already collect this type of data, the current “culture of blame”, which focuses on failing schools rather than ways to improve, means that many schools fear sharing it.