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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans a many faceted campaign
to carry out the recommendations of her Commission on the Future of
Higher Education, including providing matching funds to colleges and
states that collect and publicly report how well their students
learn, building a "privacy protected" database of college students'
academic records, and streamlining the process of applying for
federal student aid.

Those are among a small number of specific efforts that Spellings
will announce in a speech today in which she will endorse the panel's
work and challenge college leaders, policy makers and the public to
help improve an American higher education system that she describes
as slipping.

The full article is available on the Inside Higher Ed Web site, at
<http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/26/spellings>.

For background on the Spellings Commission, you can find all of IHE's
extensive coverage of the panel and its work at
<http://insidehighered.com/news/focus/commission>


Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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