From DSC:
The article below made me wonder…
What would happen if the U.S. Federal Government got tired of waiting for institutions of traditional higher education to respond significantly enough to their satisfaction? Would they re-allocate/redirect their funding elsewhere?
(Please leave a comment if you know of cases where they are already doing this.
I have a lot to learn about this, I’m sure.)
No Love for Accreditation — from insidehighered.com by Libby A. Nelson
Excerpt:
But when lawmakers do sit down to rewrite the law governing financial aid programs, accreditation will be under a particularly harsh spotlight.
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Members of Congress of both parties seemed to agree more with the critics, saying they were skeptical that traditional accreditation was flexible enough to respond to new developments in higher education.