A report released on Wednesday details the project’s progress toward establishing the five new metrics, which would measure repayment and default rates on student loans, students’ progress and program-completion rates, institutional cost per degree, employment outcomes for graduates, and learning outcomes at the program level, as measured by data like “core skills” evaluations and professional qualifying examinations. College leaders already stagger under a data-reporting burden, but they also grouse about the one-size-fits-all statistical measures that sometimes result.

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by Lee Gardner, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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