Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Publishes New Volume: 'Higher Education Effectiveness'
"Effectiveness" and "efficiency" are dirty words to some people in academe, often promoted by government technocrats or by those who believe higher education can be reduced to measurable outcomes that show up on the bottom line.
Steven Brint and Charles Clotfelter don't fit into either category.
But as editors of a new volume of the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences entitled "Higher Education Effectiveness," the scholars from University of California at Riverside and Duke University, respectively, accept the idea that "effectiveness" -- defined as how well an organization is meeting a set of agreed-upon objectives -- is a perfectly reasonable thing to try to assess within higher education...