The fall 2007 edition of Carnegie Results, a quarterly newsletter published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, provides a review of the evolution of the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) and how the results of a liberal arts education are measured.
The newsletter chronicles how and why the CLA came into being, provides examples of how the instrument is being used on campuses today, and highlights CIC’s CLA Consortium. CIC President Richard Ekman is quoted in the article. He explains the growing “culture of evidence” and CIC’s consortium that allows liberal arts colleges “to use quantitative measures to talk about the benefits” of the kind of education they provide.
Carnegie Results is available as a PDF on the Carnegie Corporation’s website at www.carnegie.org/results/index.html.