WASHINGTON — In order for the Obama administration’s proposed college ratings system to be fair, the system must take into account the differences in institutional resources and variations in the overall characteristics of different student bodies.
That was one of the key takeaways from a policy briefing staged on
Capitol Hill Tuesday by The Civil Rights Project within the Graduate
School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA.
The briefing took on the form of a symposium and featured papers
penned by several scholars who sought to illuminate the complexities
associated with trying to develop standards by which to judge
institutions of higher learning — particularly if those standards will
be used to determine financial aid, as the Obama administration has
signaled it wants to eventually do.
