August 11, 2000

Regional Accreditors Should Return to Basics

To the Editor:

Your recent article about regional accreditors raises a number of disconcerting issues for the future of these accrediting bodies and their relationship to the academy ("Accreditors Revamp Policies to Stress Student Learning," July 7). Specifically, at least two major concerns are immediately evident.

First, Jane V. Wellman's criticism that the accreditors may no longer be able "to tell the difference between the good, the bad, and the ugly," and Jack Schuster's

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