Releasing NSSE, CLA, and post-graduate success data would be a good first step toward more transparency and would allow the producers of academic quality rankings to better serve both the consumers of and investors in colleges and universities.
Looking at the academic progression (as measured by performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment) of more than 2, 000 students at 24 different colleges, Arum and Roksa found that, for the first two years of college, 45 percent of students saw no significant gains in their CLA performance.