The senate will have a resolution to consider at its next meeting. Discussion included the following points. The state budget office asked how the CSU plans to account for the money it will spend. This document seems to confuse the two. Accountability asks how the money has been spent.
Assessment asks about measuring the quality of the programs through academic review processes.
Senator Dick Williams noted that the indicators are very problematic. With the indicators as described, campuses like ours will be penalized for having accepted less prepared students, though they were fully admissible. He found them to be vague, circular, and contradictory. Both bullets confuse accountability and assessment. Improvement, quality, progress and innovation relate to assessment, not to accountability.