University of California President Mark Yudof has announced to the UC Board of Regents his plan to launch a new accountability program to monitor the university’s progress. The program is intended to better analyze the system’s performance and to provide helpful data for prospective students and legislators. The program will issue accountability reports on a handful of categories to measure the school’s success, such as how the university is doing in affordability, student performance, diversity, and other issues. Yudof created the new system in response to increasing transparency demands from the Bush administration. The UC plan provides the university with an alternative to College Portrait, a similar accountability initiative released earlier this year by The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges in conjunction with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The University of California’s nine universities declined to participate in College Portrait, citing opposition to the testing requirement’s prioritizations of a test over the campus and departmental faculty in assessing students.

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