Higher Ed Associations Take New Approach to Tracking Student Success

To improve on the current system for tracking college and university student achievement, six higher education associations unveiled a new, more inclusive model. As more states are allocating funds to colleges and universities based on performance-based metrics, six higher education associations are sponsoring a new tracking system to measure student progress.
The Student Achievement Measure (SAM) will provide a system to measure student advancement and completion of their studies and will improve on the current federal tracking model by including a larger number of students and following students who enroll in multiple higher education institutions. Read more...