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North Carolina legislature seeks to break up accreditation monopoly
On April 6, North Carolina state Sens. Michael Lee, Amy Galey and Phil Berger introduced Senate Bill 680, a higher education…
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ACTA has repeatedly documented that the system of higher education accreditation is a barrier to innovation, improvement, and accountability at colleges and universities. On May 29, ACTA President Anne D. Neal demonstrated to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that the inadequacy of accreditation has been particularly harmful to socio-economically disadvantaged students. Joining Anne Neal on the panel were Neal McCluskey from the Cato Institute, Ronald Haskins from the Brookings Institution, and Michele Siqueiros representing the Campaign for College Opportunity
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We told you recently about the University of North Carolina’s plans to establish a school for free expression and its accreditor’s brisk announcement that it would investigate that action. Now it looks like the accreditor may be the one answering questions about its bullying.
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