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The way forward for assessment.

Publication: Liberal Education
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The way forward for assessment.(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)

Article Excerpt
As THIS ISSUE of Liberal Education goes to press, we have just received news that AAC & U was awarded a major grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to support a collaborative project on student learning assessment. The FIPSE grant will fund Rising to the Challenge: Meaningful Assessment of Student Learning, a project that establishes a consortium among AAC & U, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges to build campus leadership and capacity to implement meaningful approaches to student learning assessment and use assessment results to raise the level and quality of student achievement.

This development comes at a pivotal moment in the history of American higher education. As we all know, our society has been exceptionally well served...

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