National Higher Education Reports
Accreditation Task Force Report:
Assuring Academic Quality in the 21st Century
In the report from ACE's National Task Force on Institutional Accreditation, academic leaders urge the higher education community to strengthen and improve the quality and public accountability of the institutional accreditation process.
The report, Assuring Academic Quality in the 21st Century: Self-Regulation in a New Era, considers the central characteristics of accreditation and outlines common criticisms of the process. It then offers six major recommendations for steps colleges, universities and regional accreditors can and should take to ensure accreditation meets its public accountability responsibilities given the enormous diversity of American higher education. Click here to read the entire report.
2013 APLU Annual Report
The 2013 Report for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) takes a close look at the broad array of initiatives and projects that are aimed at strengthening public universities. Click here to read the entire report.