Two years ago, a federal panel that advises the secretary of education on accreditation matters listened to four hours of complaints and debate before deciding to recommend the continued recognition of an accreditor of chiropractic programs. The panel, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, also required the accreditor, the Council on Chiropractic Education, to improve some aspects of its process and seek wider approval of its procedures and standards.
On Thursday the advisory committee spent more than five hours listening to many of the same complaints and charges before voting to recommend that the chiropractic accreditor be recognized for three more years, without any conditions—the same recommendation that the Education Department staff had given. An accreditor must be federally recognized to serve as a gatekeeper for federal student aid.
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