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Accountability needed
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation sent out earlier this week the second in its series of "Federal Updates," reporting on the regulatory process following the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act last summer. At the accreditation committee's first meeting last week, the Department of Education proposed adding to the agenda a discussion of whether a larger role should be created on accreditation decision-making bodies for constituencies external to higher education and whether accreditors changing their standards should reach out more broadly for input from outside the university. These would seem to be sensible questions, worthy of -- at the very least -- discussion. But unfortunately, the committee voted not even to consider the questions. Furthermore, there seems to be no room for trustees in the accreditation discussion. While the higher ed establishment claims they fear expanded regulation, we suspect what really scares them is public accountability and challenges to the status quo.
Posted by Noah Mamis on March 12, 2009 at March 12, 2009 04:59 PM
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