For many people, the topic of college accreditation is dry and arcane. But for faculty seeking to block actions they don’t like, accreditation is their last hope. By threatening its…
The final year of the U.S. Department of Education in the Obama administration is noteworthy for all its carnage. In September, the large ITT Tech chain of schools, which had…
Accreditation is supposed to act as a quality guarantee for colleges and universities, but it works very poorly. Students can and regularly do graduate from accredited schools without having learned…
You would think so, given the way a Brooklyn College dean avoided a multimillion-dollar grant opportunity.
Higher education still relies on a weak accreditation system, but something better will replace it.
The venerable organization that accredits business schools doesn’t seem to put a stamp of quality on its beneficiaries.
So far, online education has failed to transform higher education. An entrepreneur explains why.
Accreditation is one of those “the emperor is wearing no clothes” phenomena overloading our educational system.