How a College Accrediting Agency Failed To Protect Students From ...

... prevent a fragile institution from collapsing versus protecting students. If ... Is higher education accreditation serving students and taxpayers? If ...

Seeking Higher-Ed Accountability: Ending Federal Accreditation

Rather than guaranteeing educational quality, the accredited program at the Missouri State School of Social Work was actually “bullying” students and producing ...

Uncovering communications between Education officials and ...

... Education officials and scandal-plagued accrediting agency ... accreditation process and weaken the rules protecting students from predatory for-profit colleges.

Hate Crimes on College Campuses - The Education Trust

Accreditors & policymakers can protect students of color, promote ... Accrediting agencies are responsible for supervising the policies ...

The Culture Wars Are Coming for College Accreditation - PEN America

Over the past three years, higher education advocates have repeatedly cited accreditation standards in their defense against educational gag ...

Court Rules Against Accrediting Agency of ITT Tech, Corinthian ...

The Accrediting Council on Independent Colleges and Schools — the accrediting agency ... students of closed schools get their federal student ...

Undercover For-Profits and Zombie Accreditors… - Arnold Ventures

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or ACICS, will appear before the body that accredits the accreditors. Experts are ...

Higher Education Accreditation: How It's Changing, Why It Must

Regional accrediting agencies may experience pressure to make the following changes: further emphasize quality, focus on educational outcomes and student ...

Compliance Matrix

Higher Education Act: Recognition of Accrediting Agency or Association ... university or the employing agency must pay 25% of the student's salary. The ...

Rating accreditors: A policy group says one far exceeds the rest

... accreditation system and to ensure that students and taxpayers are protected. ... The second, Which College Accreditors Are Failing Students?, ...

The State of Federal Accreditation Regulations and Guidance

Before an accreditation agency evaluates a college or ... protects the rights of university leaders, employees, and students, including academic.

The Failure of Higher Ed Accreditation - Minding The Campus

Joshua Wolff suggests accreditation does not work because those in higher education—administrators, faculty, staff, and students—believe they ...

Toward a Consumer Protection Framework | SHEEO

It is an unfair or deceptive act or practice for a school to conceal or fail to disclose to a prospective student any fact relating to the school or program, ...

Accreditor of for-profit colleges loses federal recognition - WSYR

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department has canceled its recognition of an accrediting agency that oversees mostly for-profit colleges, ...

Feds yank ACICS' recognition, add strict requirements on colleges it ...

ACICS accredited Reagan National University, in South Dakota, even though a 2020 USA Today investigation could not verify that the college had ...

College closures with little to no warning leave students scrambling

In theory, government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures. Schools at risk ...

Protecting Students and Taxpayers

Numerous reports, studies, and investigations of abuse and misdeeds — from federal and state government agencies and non-governmental ...

The King's College (NY) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) acted to withdraw accreditation from The King's College (NY) on May 26, 2023.

Securing Transcripts and Records When Schools Fail

states and accrediting agencies can help ensure that school closures ... proTeCT-sTudenTs-unexpeCTed-College. 18 sTaTe higher eduCaTion ...

What Colleges and Universities Need to Know ... - Duane Morris LLP

If the federal agency is unable to match one or more of the students ... agency, an accrediting agency or other oversight body. The ...