Charter College: one type of American public HEI reform
Charter College is one type of American public higher education reform as well as self-adjustment of public higher institutes in response to the changes outside.Its emergence is closely relative to such policies as deregulation,decentralization,accountability,and performance assessment which have been quite popular since 1980-1990s.As a quasi-private public higher institute,it has its own independent board of trustees,and it is entitled to more procedural autonomy,in return for this,it has to implement more accountability.