Re: Bologna Process

George Leef highlighted his Pope Center article analyzing the Bologna Process, an effort to standardize European higher education requirements and make it easier for students to transfer to universities in other EU countries. Many in the United States want to replicate Europe's homogenizing move. But is this a good idea? The only way to standardize college curricula is to make endless "student learning outcomes" and to remove all institutional variety. In my NAS article on the Bologna Process, I give two reasons why such outcomes assessment works reasonably well in K-12 education but stumbles when it reaches college.