By Belle S. Wheelan and Mark A. Elgart. Much has been made in recent months by higher education and political leaders about how the costs to institutions of federal regulation are driving up the price of colleges and universities. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration is planning new executive action on higher education accreditation in the coming weeks, as part of a push to make accreditors focus more heavily on student outcomes when judging colleges and universities, officials said Monday. Read more...
By Paul Fain. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking information from a national accreditor about the for-profit colleges it oversees, which include several controversial chains. Read more...
Professional bodies in the country may be locked out of accreditation of degree programmes in universities and the task handled solely by the Commission for University Education, writes Ouma Wanzala for Daily Nation. Read more...
Senator Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, and Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, this week introduced a bill that would create a new "outcomes-based" accreditation system. Read more...
A California community college system-convened task force has decided that the state's 113 two-year colleges should seek to be overseen by a new regional accrediting body. Read more...
The European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education (EQANIE) has awarded five international Euro-Inf accreditations to the UOC in recognition of the work of its Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies.
The Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies (EIMT) of UOC have received an important international recognition for the quality of its teaching and research. More...
By Simona Chiose and Verity Stevenson. Canada will get more power to accredit its own medical schools, under an agreement that took years to negotiate and that reduces the U.S. influence on the criteria used to review schools. Read more...The federal panel charged with advising the U.S. Department of Education on accreditation is calling on policy makers to give it the final authority to decide which accrediting agencies deserve the federal government's recognition. Read more...
By Don Troop. Sojourner-Douglass College has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Middle States Commission on Higher Education for revoking the institution’s accreditation over financial problems, The Baltimore Sun reports. In February the commission denied Sojourner-Douglass’s appeal of Middle States’ decision, announced last fall, and the predominantly black college was officially stripped of its accreditation on Tuesday. More...
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