December 10, 2007

Colleges and Their Accreditors Seek Compromise, Fearing Education Department Rules

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.

The two sides began sniping three weeks ago when a group of 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, approved

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