Federal Panel Floats Plan to Overhaul Accreditation

College leaders decry replacing regional boards with a national system

Accreditors and some college groups are aghast at a proposal to eliminate regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month by the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education.

The news came just as the chairman of the commission allayed another concern of college officials by publicly

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