Trying Prevention Before Punishment

Southern group's new chief aims to help colleges stay in accreditor's good graces

Belle S. Wheelan became the president of a leading accrediting organization soon after a controversy that would have made many executives run the other way.

In December 2004, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools withdrew the accreditation of Edward Waters College after it learned that the historically black institution had plagiarized a key accreditation document. But the Jacksonville,

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