Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Accountability

As Congress finally passes the sweeping college legislation, 5 years late, views on its significance and potential impact vary widely.

"As Congress and the U.S. Education Department contemplate whether and how to force colleges to publish significantly more information about their performance, two associations of public universities are forging ahead with their own plan for a voluntary accountability system under which institutions would release data about student learning outcomes that most of them have not typically made public. And the major association of private colleges on Monday offered a look at its own accountability template, which would give institutions much more leeway about what they report about their students’ classroom success. "