Unwelcome 'Help' from the Feds

Doug Lederman: 

WASHINGTON -- These have not been times of peace, love and understanding between the federal government and higher education accreditors. For several years now, spanning two presidential administrations, the agencies charged with assuring that colleges meet an acceptable level of quality have felt buffeted by shifting, escalating and, in their view, sometimes inappropriate demands from federal policy makers.

The conflict -- which in 2007 led Congress to block the Education Department from issuing accreditation regulations regarding student learning and blew up the department's process for assessing the accreditors themselves -- has cranked suspicion levels sky high, with accrediting officials on the lookout for signs of further encroachment into areas that have traditionally been off-limits for the government.

Posted by jimz at March 16, 2010 1:42 AM
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