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July/August 2008: In This Issue

Assessing Student Learning:
A Work in Progress

by Richard Ekman and Stephen Pelletier

In recent years, an acrimonious debate has broken out in higher-education circles about institutional accountability and performance. Efforts to alter federal policy in particular have been flashpoints for often heated discourse...
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The Voluntary System of Accountability: Origins and Purposes

by Margaret A. Miller

In an interview conducted at the Carnegie Foundation in Februray 2008, I asked two people with responsibility for leading the development of the Voluntary System of Accountability—a joint project of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and the...
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A New Era in Learning-Community Work: Why the Pedagogy of Intentional Integration Matters
by Emily Lardner and Gillies Malnarich
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Attending to Student Learning
by Judith S. Eaton
Addressing the Crisis in College Mathematics
by Teresa Thiel, Shahla Peterman and Monica Brown
Perspectives: Colleges and Undocumented Students
by Michael A. Olivas

Listening to Students: A Unified Theory of Auto Painting, Kansas, and Conceptual Physics
by Randy Regier
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Marrying Accountability and Autonomy: Shine Spotlights or Send Signals
by Arthur M. Hauptman
Editorial: Contributing to the Public Good
by Margaret A. Miller
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Resource Review: Today's Majority—Faculty Outside the Tenure System
by Judith M. Gappa