Raleigh, NC—The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal published a new policy brief today explaining how Southern states can reform their laws to allow public and private institutions to…
Getting and keeping accreditation is critical for almost all colleges in the United States. Accreditation is third-party validation that a college meets minimum standards. Not only is institutional accreditation required…
Higher education did not have a good year in 2023, as evidenced by high-profile resignations at Penn (Liz Magill) and Harvard (Claudine Gay). This followed abysmal televised congressional testimony in…
On Sept. 29, North Carolina governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 8. HB8 will probably be best known for adding the Pornography Age Verification Enforcement Act to state law, but…
In theory, university accrediting bodies are supposed to monitor academic quality. However, they are not always good at their jobs. As recent Martin Center coverage has argued, accreditors often have…
College accreditation used to be the most soporific of topics. Almost nobody was interested in it because accreditation meant so little. Accrediting agencies had their standards that kept degree mills…
To the editor: My Response to Prof. Vedder: I appreciated reading your piece, Does College Accreditation Work? and wanted to make some comments in order to broaden the conversation. Much…
When you buy a car, a piece of furniture, or a pleasure boat, you typically don’t ask the seller, “Is the manufacturer accredited?” We buy all kinds of things, even…
Last week, the North Carolina General Assembly marked a special occasion: crossover. May 4, the official “crossover deadline,” was the last day on which bills could pass out of the…
On April 10, three N.C. senators filed a bill to reform college and university accreditation in North Carolina. Though the bill was recently pulled from this week’s legislative calendar, its…