Thursday, Nov. 8,2007 7:58 p.m.
Given the large amounts of money students and tax payers shell out for higher education, it’s not surprising that more and more people are becoming concerned about the accountability and efficiency of colleges and universities. John P. Campbell, associate vice president for teaching and learning technologies at Purdue, has tried to cast a new data-mining program that monitors student progress in this light, arguing that preventing students from failing a class increases the value of their tuition.