The AI Rock and Hard Place
The email dropped into my university account with a quiet ding, an inauspicious start to what would become an unwanted foray into the messy world of AI “false positives.” With…
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The American Bar Association Needn’t Accredit Law Schools
A number of “sacred cow” beliefs regarding higher education are (finally!) coming under scrutiny. One of them is that it is important for the American Bar Association (ABA) to oversee…
[LETTER] Martin Center Praises Two Accreditation Bills
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 25, 2025)—The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal has sent two letters to the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce praising pending legislation on…
Goodbye, Belle Wheelan
Over the last 25 years or so, one model of university accreditation has given way to another. Under the old system, colleges submitted to invasive but essentially nonpartisan examination of…
The Phony War on Accreditors
It is a low bar to clear, but college accreditation has never been so hotly commented on as at present. Many in the higher-ed world fear for its future. Two…
Higher-Ed in the NCGA’s Long Session
This year is the North Carolina legislature’s long session. With the “crossover” deadline of May 8 just a month away, the Martin Center has collected a roundup of proposed bills…
End the Unjust Stratification of Accreditors
Practically everyone knows of a student who had to take virtually the same class twice—and pay for it twice—because his college wouldn’t accept perfectly good transfer credits from another institution.…
Unfortunately, Negus’s proposed accreditation alternative isn’t viable
In his recent article on accreditation reform (Accreditation-Reform Hopes for the Second Trump Administration, January 31, 2025),Sam Negus raises an interesting question in what may be the most radical (and…
Accreditation-Reform Hopes for the Second Trump Administration
Higher education seemingly played an important if largely negative role in the recent presidential election. Exit polls showed that non-college-educated voters overwhelmingly favored Donald Trump. Many voters associated Kamala Harris…
Clarification on accreditation
I wholeheartedly agree with Scott Yenor’s timely observation that “accreditors are political actors” (The Politics of Higher-Education Accreditation: Accreditors are Political Actors), but I want to clarify some of his…