August 3, 2007

Colleges, Not Congress, Should Decide

By BARMAK NASSIRIAN

For most of the past decade, the lobbying juggernaut of the career-college sector and its political patrons have fought a battle on Capitol Hill to federalize institutional decisions about transfers of credit. They have accused traditional colleges of refusing to award academic credit for what they claim is their institutions' equivalent course work.

That refusal, career colleges allege, is based on the fact that the credits in question have been earned at institutions accredited by

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