The watchdogs of higher education are failing students
Preston Cooper
June 10, 2023
Also: Explaining the Gainful Employment rule, and resuming student loan payments (for real this time).
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If you’d told me three years ago that college accreditation reform would become a presidential campaign issue, I would have raised an eyebrow. But here’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during his campaign launch last month:
“Some of the problems with the university and the ideological capture — that didn’t happen by accident, you can trace back all the way to the accreditation cartels. Well, guess what? To become an accreditor, how do you do that? You’ve got to get approved by the U.S. Department of Education. So we’re going to be doing alternative accreditation regimes.”
