One of the core issues with higher education is accountability for results. I was shocked to hear an ex-president of a university state that their training did not need to relate to results since “this is education you know.” Well, this would be interesting with the exception that our tax dollars have funded this gig for decades.

There has been some interesting work on how to apply “authentic evaluation” to higher education so that in addition to a liberal arts education students can put this all together in the world of work and entrepreneurship when they leave. I saw this on the Chronicle of Higher Education site about 6 months ago but cannot seem to locate.