Evaluating effects of (int'l ed) outreach

clue 1: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/28/writing
How to Tell Whether Writing Instruction Works [substitute OUTREACH]
Complaints about students’ poor writing skills have prompted many colleges to create new programs or adopt curricular changes, but do these efforts work?...We need to know what makes the agenda-setting part of this relationship work,” she said. Politically, he said, writing programs need to be able to defend their programs. But educationally, he said the reality is that research could find flaws in current practice. “We need to be ready to abandon cherished practices if they don’t work,” he said.

clue 2: from K. David Harrison, Why Languages Die [substitute why die for why LEARN]