By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week delayed for the second time a final decision on the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, an oversight body the Obama administration had sought to eliminate. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Q&A with the co-editors of an anthology of essays on accreditation about new challenges for the college oversight bodies. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. An accreditor places each college of the for-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education on probation, finding misrepresentations to students and -- at one campus -- discriminatory attitudes toward students. More...
By Eugene Vorotnikov. The 50 largest Russian universities have called on Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, to abolish the current system of state accreditation of universities, due to its backwardness, according to universities’ representatives. More...By Rick Seltzer. The accreditor for New England has placed two independent nonprofit colleges on probation, it said recently. More...
By Rick Seltzer. University says it's turning around finances in time to keep accreditation, but leaked documents seem to call that assertion into question. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The role of college oversight bodies is in the spotlight as more large for-profit institutions look to reclassify as nonprofits. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week issued an extension for her department's decision on whether to fully restore federal recognition of a troubled accreditor that the Obama administration had sought to terminate. More...
While Washington, D.C. slams accreditors for not holding colleges and universities accountable for their student outcomes, the more insidious failure of accreditation is the stifling effect on innovation at existing institutions. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors. More...
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