UMass prez sweats performance report

The University of Massachusetts is making strides toward greater transparency and accountability with plans to release a report next spring on its performance, experts said. But that transparency could come at a cost.

As an institution beholden to the state for much of its funding, UMass also has more than its reputation at stake in reporting its performance. At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce forum yesterday, UMass President Robert Caret said the state has already cut funding to the school by about $30 million.

"It's completely reasonable for policymakers to hold higher education institutions accountable when they're appropriating money for them," said Andrew Kelly, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. "But it's important not to get hung up on one particular measure of their performance."

The report will measure the university's performance in student experience and success, producing an educated citizenry, world-class research and development enterprise, enhancing social well-being, good stewards of resources, and telling and selling the UMass story.

The university could go even further, Kelly said, by following the lead of states such as Florida, Tennessee and Texas, which compare students' post-secondary school records with the likelihood that they're employed three to five years after they leave school and how much they earn.

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