ACTA president Anne D. Neal discusses some of the prevailing problems of accreditation and focuses on ways we can improve the accreditation process.
Gwenda Kaczor for The Chronicle Overhauling higher-education accreditation could be on the agenda for conservative lawmakers and policy mavens now that Donald J. Trump has been re-elected president.
Tremors from the election continue to ripple across the country, and the meltdown among the Democrats rages on. What is undeniable is that there is a real opportunity to make some much-needed reforms now.
Anne D. Neal doesn’t seem to mind being the lonely voice in the wilderness when it comes to the value of college accreditation. She gets a lot of practice. In late December, as a member of the National Advisors Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, Neal was virtually alone in her questioning of the major […]
The French have an education ministry; the English put their faculty in charge. In America, the Tenth Amendment is clear—education is not one of the powers delegated to the federal government. As a consequence, state charters traditionally guard schools against federal control, and colleges and universities are run by lay boards of trustees secured from […]
Who protects the public interest? That is the question. In today’s Federal Register, the Department of Education asked “interested parties” for nominations to NACIQI, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. Overseeing billions in federal student aid, NACIQI is not a household word. Mom and Dad pay the taxes that fund those billions—but […]
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