The ‘Quality Game’: External Review and Institutional Reaction over Three Decades in the United States

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2007, Pages 119-153

  Ewell, Peter ^a  

^a National Center for Higher Education Management Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Accreditation Review; Institutional Accreditation; Quality Assurance Process; Quality Game; Quality Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103944721     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6012-0_5     Document Type: Chapter

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