ACTA President Anne D. Neal delivered this statement before the National Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity prior to recusing herself from its June 2014 meeting.
ACTA president Anne Neal participates in “Keeping College Within Reach: Discussing Program Quality through Accreditation” in Washington DC, a public hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, part of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Universities and colleges are powerhouses of economic development and crucial to the competitiveness of our country. This paper reviews how trustees can maximize the economic and other impacts of their educational institutions by measuring and rewarding productivity and quality.
ACTA president Anne Neal participates in the “Complete College Ohio Conference” in Columbus on November 13th for the Ohio Board of Regents, a conference featuring state and national experts and focusing on “practical solutions to improve college readiness and keep students on track to attain a degree in a timely way while providing incentives to […]
As Congress embarks on its mission to reauthorize the law that governs the flow of federal financial aid dollars, some education experts say the government has been ineffective in ensuring the quality of the nation’s colleges and universities. In a paper released Monday, Hank Brown, a former U.S. congressman, senator and president of the University […]
Accrediting agencies should no longer serve as gatekeepers to federal financial aid, argues a new report by Hank Brown, a former president of the University of Colorado and Republican U.S. senator. The current accreditation system squelches innovation, interferes with colleges’ autonomy, and is riddled with conflicts of interest, Brown said in the report, which was […]
Several education groups are pushing for a major reform in how the United States handles school accreditation, arguing the current system raises costs for both schools and students while allowing unaccountable officials undue influence. Accreditation is essential for a college’s degrees to have value. In most states professional certification in various fields requires an accredited […]
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