The Bush administration’s high-profile campaign for colleges to adopt tougher student-assessment standards may be dwindling “at least for now” to a one-person show by a die-hard adviser. The federal panel charged with reviewing college...
The federal panel that advises the U.S. education secretary on accreditation began its biannual meeting in Washington Tuesday, fighting perceptions that it has overstepped its bounds and hoping to ward off Congressional legislation that...
A chastened federal review panel on Tuesday opened its first round of assessments […]
The biannual gatherings of the committee that advises the U.S. education secretary on accreditation have not traditionally been must-attend events. And while it’d be a stretch to say that getting a seat at next...
A dispute over the federal agency charged with reviewing college accreditors may come to a boil at a key review session next month, when the waning Bush administration will have one of its highest-profile...
Higher education—dominated by left-leaning faculty—has become, in many instances, a politically charged arena that stifles free exchange of ideas and should be made more ideologically diverse with new academic programs and departments, argued scholars...
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