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DeSantis Won the Accreditation Fight. What’s Next?
The once-sleepy topic of accreditation continues to take shape as perhaps the most important frontline topic in the battle for higher education reform.
Last week you read about the “crisis of accreditation” in higher ed, which works, in short, like this:
Now Hank Brown, former university president and U.S. Senator from Colorado, has written in the Wall Street Journal about the damage that out-of-control accreditors do to universities. A taste:
“For decades, these accreditors have effectively guarded the status quo, focusing on process and resources rather than on educational excellence. The law school accreditor, the American Bar Association, for example, demands a certain percentage of tenured professors at each school and limits the amount of online learning that can be offered.”
The accreditation system is a “hidden drain” on higher education: it degrades educational quality, but it is invisible to most of the public. ACTA has spent years working to bring this issue to light—and with the Journal, we hope that we are turning a corner, and the public will start to demand answers from the system.
The once-sleepy topic of accreditation continues to take shape as perhaps the most important frontline topic in the battle for higher education reform.
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