American college leaders, under growing pressure to prove the value of their product, have been falsely accusing the Bush administration of seeking more federal control over their operations, the administration's top higher-education official said on Friday.
"I can't tell you how disappointed we were" by some allegations about administration intentions, Sara Martinez Tucker, the under secretary of education, told a conference of accreditation officials here.
Ms. Tucker, who was a member of the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education, faulted critics for arguing that the commission's push for colleges to devise more reliable methods of measuring their success represented a new federal intrusion.
The under secretary's complaint suggested hardening divisions over the administration's effort to make colleges more responsive to American economic needs, even while some higher-education groups are taking tentative steps toward finding ways to meet the administration's overall goals (see article). Click here to read the rest of this article.
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