A Year Later, Obama Names Panel Members to Oversee Accreditors

After more than a year of waiting, the nation’s regional accrediting agencies are finally learning who will be judging them: The Obama administration today announced its six picks to the newly reconstituted National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. At least half of the appointees are scholars whose writings have explored race- or gender-related bias. Congress is expected to soon name its 12 picks to the panel.