Opinion column: The University of Wisconsin System’s new online “accountability dashboard” includes useful information about enrollment, costs, graduation rates and where students come from. It can tell you whether professors are paid competitively and how the System contributes to economic development — both common talking point in the System’s quest for more state money. But among its many data sets — designed to show students, parents, lawmakers and the public what they’re getting for their billions in tax and tuition dollars — there’s nothing to indicate whether UW graduates get well-paying jobs in their fields.
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