Accreditation

Don’t hate on higher ed’s refs: an accreditor’s role is to enforce the rule book for academic freedom and institutional autonomy, Jamienne Studley writes.

An emerging accreditor aims to set standards for evaluating the growing number of programs for students long underserved in higher education.

This free, nonprofit, online university breaks rules, harnesses bots and seeks to serve the world. But its effort to seek new accreditation raises thorny higher ed innovation questions.

If you want a higher ed reboot, you’re going to need the accreditors, Lawrence Schall writes.

A new report alleges that “higher education accreditors don’t want to hear your complaints.” That's not true, the accreditors say.

Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University ended the Faculty Senate, among other changes that drew faculty criticism. Now, the university president has written a blog post mulling firing certain dissenters.

In the face of unprecedented political interference, Florida’s public universities have no right to be accredited, Brian Rosenberg writes.

The accrediting agencies’ collective failure to hold low-performing colleges accountable against objective standards harms students and taxpayers, Jay Urwitz writes.