System of Accountability Links
This Web site has been created to help facilitate early adoption of The Voluntary System of Accountability: College Portrait template. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chancellor Richard H. Wells chaired one of three task forces that created the template.
The Documents presented below provide a comprehensive overview of the Voluntary System of Accountability's College Portrait project.
- Welcome to VSA College Portrait Online, February 2008
- Journal Sentinel Editorial: "Testing the Colleges," November 25, 2007
- Trudy Banta: "An Accountability Program Primer for Administrators", November 2007.
- UW System to Launch Voluntary System of Accountability, November 7, 2007
- Chancellor's Letter of October 31, 2007 Announcing UW Oshkosh's decision to become an early adopter of VSA: College Portrait
- Advance-Titan editorial, October 29, 2007, "Many benefits to VSA: College Portrait surveys, if they're taken seriously"
- Advance-Titan, October 29, 2007, "OSA tentatively passes Wells' transparency agenda"
- Oshkosh Northwestern editorial, August 7, 2007, "Amid fiscal fight, UWO focused on quality, growth"
- UW Oshkosh press release, "Chancellor heads national task force"
- Badger Herald, Feb. 14, 2007 "Chancellor leads project"
- Chancellor Wells' October ppt. presentation, "VSA College Portraits: An Overview"
- Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) Summary and Background (PDF)
- Chancellor Wells' ppt. presentation, "College Portraits: Holding Ourselves Accountable"
- VSA College Portrait Template (PDF)
- "Model for Enhancing the Quality of Public Higher Education" (PDF)
- "Re-Defining Quality Education" narrative (DOC)
- VSA White Paper by Christine Keller (DOC)