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many stakeholders

Once again, the authors mention the importance of recognizing the many stakeholders involved in portfolio assessment. We've heard a lot from the authors about the "many stakeholders." On the one hand, I think the authors are being realistic. No university administration is going to give their blessings to a budding portfolio program without wanting something specific in return. On the other, I keep misreading "stakeholder" as "shareholder." Some of these folks have interests diametrically opposed to that of teachers developing portfolio programs, and little attention seems to be given to these conflicts. For instance, while the authors write at one point that they don't think a portfolio assessment should ever result in limiting students' access to education (the so-called gatekeeping function of assessment), that is precisely what some university administrators and politicians want assessment to do. Should these outside stakeholders' goals be considered, or seen as a threat to the whole rationale for portfolios?