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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Quality in the Undergraduate Experience: What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides? Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23514.
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Quality in the Undergraduate Experience

What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides?

SUMMARY OF A WORKSHOP

Karin Matchett, Maria Lund Dahlberg, and Thomas Rudin, Rapporteurs

Board on Higher Education and Workforce

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Suggested citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Quality in the Undergraduate Experience: What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides? Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23514.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Quality in the Undergraduate Experience: What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides? Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23514.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN, HOW IS IT MEASURED, AND WHO DECIDES? A WORKSHOP

PAUL N. COURANT (Chair) Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, Professor of Information, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

ELLEN HAZELKORN, Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority, and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

PAUL J. LeBLANC, President, Southern New Hampshire University

ALEXANDER McCORMICK, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, and Director, National Survey of Student Engagement

MARCO MOLINARO, Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Effectiveness, and Director, Center for Educational Effectiveness, University of California, Davis

INDIRA NAIR, Former Vice Provost of Education and Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

ROY A. SWIFT, Executive Director, Workcred

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Staff

THOMAS RUDIN, Director, Board on Higher Education and Workforce

AQILA COULTHURST, Associate Program Officer, Science, Technology, and Economic Policy

MARIA LUND DAHLBERG, Associate Program Officer, Office of Communications

IRENE NGUN, Research Assistant, Board on Higher Education and Workforce

ADRIANA COUREMBIS, Financial Associate, Board on Higher Education and Workforce

Consultant

KARIN MATCHETT, Rapporteur

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Quality in the Undergraduate Experience: What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides? Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23514.
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BOARD ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE

WILLIAM E. KIRWAN (Chair), Chancellor Emeritus, University System of Maryland

LAWRENCE D. BOBO, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

ANGELA BYARS-WINSTON, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison

JAIME L. CURTIS-FISK, North America Director of STEM, and R&D scientist, The Dow Chemical Company

APRILLE ERICSSON, Small Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program Manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

RICHARD FREEMAN, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University

PAUL J. LeBLANC, President, Southern New Hampshire University

SALLY MASON, President Emerita, University of Iowa

FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, Chancellor, Los Angeles Community College District

SUBHASH SINGHAL, Battelle Fellow Emeritus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

KUMBLE R. SUBBASWAMY, President, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

SHELLEY WESTMAN, Vice President, Operations & Strategic Integration Initiatives, IBM

MARY WOOLLEY, President, Research!America

Staff

TOM RUDIN, Director, Board on Higher Education and Workforce

ASHLEY BEAR, Program Officer

NINA BOSTON, Research Assistant

IRENE NGUN, Research Assistant

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Acknowledgments

The committee thanks the Lumina Foundation for its support of this workshop.

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process.

We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report: Karen Elzey, Business-Higher Education Forum; Jordan Matsudaira, Cornell University; Josh Trapani, Association of American Universities; Scott Watson, Education Policy Institute; and Joshua Wyner, The Aspen Institute.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the report, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Norman Bradburn, University of Chicago. Appointed by the Academies, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the institution.

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Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the extent to which they can expect a fair return on their investment in higher education.In order to better understand the concept of quality - enabling students to acquire knowledge in a variety of disciplines and deep knowledge in at least one discipline, as well as to develop a range of skills and habits of mind that prepare them for career success, engaged citizenship, intercultural competence, social responsibility, and continued intellectual growth - an ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Higher Education and Workforce, with funding from the Lumina Foundation, organized a workshop in Washington, D.C., on December 14-15, 2015.This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of that event.

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