June 20, 2008

Advisory Panel Makes What May Be Final Demand

By PAUL BASKEN

If the Education Department's advisory committee on accreditation holds out any hope that Congress will reconsider a plan to disband the panel, that message may have gotten lost last week, at what may have been its final review session.

In a display of the type of behavior that probably moved lawmakers to act against it, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity challenged two major accrediting agencies over their policies for ensuring college

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