Higher Education Accountability
- ISBN-10
- 1421424746
- ISBN-13
- 9781421424743
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-27
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Robert Kelchen
Description
Immersed as they are in current debates about how best to respond to these pressures, faculty and administrators will welcome this up-to-date and timely account, which offers not only a look at current practices but an examination of the future of accountability in American higher education.
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