The Commonwealth of Learning Review and Improvement Model (COL RIM) was developed by the Commonwealth of Learning in response to two key drivers: (1) Increased global emphasis on the quality of higher education; and (2) Rising concern about the high cost and uncertain benefits of conventional approaches to external quality assurance. Any…

Quality assurance for higher education in Europe has developed significantly since 2002, and has increasingly influenced, and been influenced by, the Bologna Process. A major step in the Bologna Process was taken at the ministerial meeting in Bergen in May 2005, with the adoption of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the…

This publication provides a closer look at data reported annually by South Carolina's public institutions of higher education as part of institutional effectiveness reporting and as part of the process of performance funding. Prior to the January 2000 edition, this document was entitled "Minding Our P's and Q's: Indications of Productivity…

This report presents tables of results on 10 overall quality indicators/performance measures of institutions of higher education in Colorado. The 10 indicators are: (1) graduation rates; (2) faculty teaching workload; (3) freshman retention in the same institution; (4) performance of recent graduates; (5) institutional support expenditures per FTE…

This report, issued by the Connecticut Department of Higher Education, reports on trends in higher education for the year 2011. Six goals are presented, each with at least two indicators. Each indicator is broken down into the following subsections: About This Indicator; Highlights; and In the Future. Most indicators also include statistical…

This is the second publication in an annual series providing performance indicators relating to higher education in the United Kingdom. The report is based on data from the academic years 1997-98 and 1998-99. The indicators are provided for the 169 publicly funded institutions of higher education in the UK and are presented in 7 tables. Indicators…

This report is the third annual accountability report of Connecticut's state system of higher education. The report contains accountability measures for each unit of the system and performance improvement targets on six priority state-level goals. The new reporting structure, inaugurated in this report, has a three-level structure: 12 state-level…

The 2000 Factbook about the University of Alaska-Anchorage (UAA) provides student enrollment data, student performance data, faculty information, and financial information. The UAA encompasses a university system, five affiliated community colleges, and a distance learning program. Work has been completed for UAA's decennial institutional…

This is the third report in an annual series providing performance indicators relating to higher education in the United Kingdom. The report is based on data from the academic years 1998-1999 and 1999-2000. Indicators are given for the 169 publicly funded institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom. Indicators, presented in seven major…

Connecticut State law requires each constituent unit of higher education to submit its first accountability report to the Connecticut Commissioner of Higher Education by January 1, 2001. The Commissioner is charged with compiling these reports. The accountability measures used were developed by the state's Higher Education Coordinating Council.…

The Commission staff reviewed the institutional performance accountability reports submitted by each public college and university and prepared a consolidated report. This report appears in two volumes. Volume 1 contains the following: (1) an overview of the history and major features of the accountability process; (2) the assessment of the…

This report is the second annual accountability report of Connecticut's state system of higher education. With the passage of Public Act 01-173, each constituent unit of higher education is to submit an accountability report to the Commissioner of Higher Education annually by January 1. The Commissioner is charged with assembling a consolidated…

Discusses, in the context of the National Research Council's next study of research-doctorate programs, arguments over continuing use of reputational surveys as the primary measure of program quality, as opposed to more objective measures of research performance. Eleven tables rank institutions for specific fields by reputation, citation density,…

Changes in undergraduate degree production from 1972-76 at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego were studied. The college has moved steadily toward becoming a multipurpose liberal arts college and it serves a sizeable number of students who begin their post-high school careers in community, agricultural, and technical units of SUNY.…

This report presents faculty headcount statistics for Nova Southeastern University (Florida) from fall term 1995 to fall term 1998; the intent of the study was to examine the ratio of full-time faculty to student enrollment in view of accreditation criteria mandated by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A wide variety of data is…