Tbers, 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 email: [log in to unmask] phone: 607-436-2701 fax: 607-436-3081 IM: oneontatltc "Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"