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It warns that lowering academic standards harms students economically and personally. 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Academic success is not just exemplified in good grades and on-time graduation, although those are both essential components of a valuable education. True academic success requires incoming students to be academically prepared for college rigor, and is demonstrated by the availability of high-quality academic programs and evidence of personal and professional growth in the years after students’ graduation. Institutions that churn out students with lowquality—yet costly—degrees or who set up students for failure by whittling down academic standards, are setting them up for long-term economic and personal hardship. This is why academic transparency is crucial.  \n1. To read more from the Martin Center about the importance of governance transparency, visit: [https://](https://)[ ](https://)[www.jamesgmartin.center/tag/academic-transparency](www.jamesgmartin.center/tag/academic-transparency)  \nAcademic transparency is truth in advertising. One is hard-pressed to find a college mission statement that doesn’t promise to elevate students’ academic potential and set them on a path to life-long success. If colleges are confident in the value they offer, they should be equally confident in drawing back the curtain on what they teach students, how they determine and enforce academic standards, and where their students go post-graduation.  \nOne of the simplest ways to practice academic transparency is to make syllabi publicly accessible by posting them online before registration for classes begins. Doing so serves multiple purposes. Firstly, it allows students to make more informed decisions about what classes they should take. A history course that has a list of original founding documents for required reading is vastly different from a history course with contemporary ideologically tilted assignments. Knowing the required reading ahead of time will allow conscientious students to get the most out of their  \n1 Blueprint for Reform  \n2 Blueprint for Reform  \nPolicymakers  \nLegislation  \nReading  \nuniversity p  \ntime in college. Secondly, the sunlight provided by having their syllabi publicly viewable may encourage professors to cull truly rigorous coursework. The public eye is a good deterrent for professors who may be tempted to use their classes as a front to advance their ideological agendas. Finally, it allows lawmakers to see what kind of education is being offered at taxpayer-supported institutions. This and other academic transparency measures outlined below should be standard practice for every public college and university.  \nRecommendations  \nThe Martin Center recommends that legislatures, university boards, and faculty governing committeestake steps to improve academic transparency at public colleges and universities.  \nUniversities should:  \n• Make all undergraduate syllabi publicly accessible online before the first day of class registration.  \n• Require that the titles and authors ofall required reading material be listed on the syllabi.  \n• Make all professors' CVs publicly accessible online.  \n• Report on aggregate student outcomes one year, five years, and ten years after college, including career paths and median income by college major. This data should be publicly accessible in the form of an online report or interactive data dashboard.  \nModel ractices:  \n• University of North Carolina at Asheville: Online Syllabi (English, Atmospheric Sciences, Languages & Literatures  \n• University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Online Syllabi (History)  \n• University of North Carolina System:  \nInteractive Data Dashboards  \no Enrollment  \no Transfer Students  \no Freshmen Admissions and Pe","cbCaio4MPazIvqak","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio4MPazIvqak","pdf",738786,"English","# Blueprint for Reform\n## Academic Transparency\n## Why Academic Transparency Is Needed\n## Recommendations\n## Model Practices\n## Further Reading","[{\"question\":\"What recommendations does the Martin Center make for improving academic transparency?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends that legislatures, university boards, and faculty take steps such as making syllabi and required reading details public, publishing professors’ CVs, and reporting aggregate student outcomes over one, five, and ten years.\"}]","BLUEPRINT FOR REFORM - Academic Transparency | PDF"]