December 21, 2007

Accreditors and Colleges Join Forces Against Education Dept.'s Accountability Probe

By PAUL BASKEN

As angry as the nation's colleges and accreditors may be with each other, their common fear of the Education Department appears even stronger.

Colleges and accreditors began sniping at each other in November when some accreditors quietly persuaded members of the U.S. House of Representatives to delete language from a bill to renew the Higher Education Act that would have given each college the chief authority in setting the criteria used for its own accreditation review. That bill,

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