Accreditation Ensures Quality Assurance

October 13, 2022

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Accreditation Ensures Quality Assurance (San Jose Spotlight, October 5, 2022) "The process of accreditation, its history and future play a key role in ensuring a high-quality education and assuring students that a given college or university operates with institutional integrity and effectiveness."

Accreditor Orders ASA College to Prove Why It Shouldn't Close (Inside Higher Ed, October 10, 2022) "The Middle States Commission on Higher Education on October 7 said that it would withdraw accreditation from ASA College by Nov. 1 unless the for-profit institution in New York proves that it has corrected a large number of financial, governance and other problems."

Can Accreditation Support Equity-Focused Change? (Inside Higher Ed, October 6, 2022) "To us the unsettled question is, can accreditors be part of the solution and bring their tremendous influence to bear on some of the intractable, systemic issues facing higher education today?"

Thousands of Students Take Courses Through Unaccredited Private Companies. Here's a Look Into One of Them. (The Chronicle of Higher Education [subscription required], September 27, 2022) "A growing number of students are taking courses offered by unaccredited private companies and completing them in a matter of days or weeks — often for less than $200 — and then transferring the credits to colleges."