July 27, 2007
Accreditation System Is Misguided Failure, Lobbying Group Says
The federal government's system for accrediting colleges is a misguided failure that should be largely replaced with a simpler method that relies on key institutional data about cost and quality, a trustees' group argues.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a conservative-leaning lobbying association led by Anne D. Neal, proposed in a report released last week that a process of "expedited accreditation" might begin to repair a system that the council regards as detracting from
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