Higher Education Accountability in the Context of American Culture:Multiple Meanings,Internal Tension and Reform Turn
In American culture,higher education accountability is a highly complex concept that em-bodies the multiple meanings of responding to demands,transparent technology,control processes,and improvement actions.It constitutes a diversified accountability relationship.In the practical situation,there are a series of internal tensions and profound challenges within and between different accountabili-ty structures.Highlighting the responsibility dimension of accountability and promoting the responsi-bility shift of higher education accountability reform from three aspects of the subject,structure and i-dea could provide a constructive approach to guiding accountability out of realistic dilemma.