2008-2009 marks the first year UW Tacoma has participated in the Voluntary System of Accountability College Portrait. IRP has completed data reporting for UW Tacoma and has posted the College Portrait at http://www.collegeportraits.org/WA/UWT/.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE PORTRAIT
(taken from their website at www.collegeportraits.org/about)
The College Portrait is a source of basic, comparable information about public colleges and reliable data for prospective students and their families.
The College Portrait was created as part of the Voluntary System of AccountabilityTM, (VSA) - a program designed to provide greater accountability through accessible, transparent, and comparable information. The VSA and College Portrait are sponsored by two nonprofit organizations in Washington DC - the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). More than 80 higher education leaders from 70 public institutions were involved in developing the College Portrait.
AASCU and APLU represent more than 500 public colleges and universities across the United States. Participation in the VSA is voluntary; however, over half of the 500 member institutions - nearly 300 at last count - have decided to join the VSA project. Each of these colleges and universities will be posting their College Portraits within the next few months.
