December 12, 2008
How to Reinvent Accreditation (and Not by Using Geography)
This year's renewal of the Higher Education Act has demonstrated that the federal government will inevitably continue to regulate colleges and universities. The renewal process has also shown that we in higher education can mitigate the impact of such government oversight by being accountable and policing ourselves — which will in turn allow us to maintain important institutional autonomy and academic freedom. But to accomplish that, we will have to reconsider the fundamental
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