{"id":35739,"date":"2012-12-19T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=35739"},"modified":"2012-12-19T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:49:48","slug":"accreditation-actions-increased-during-financial-downturn-kelderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/12\/19\/accreditation-actions-increased-during-financial-downturn-kelderman\/","title":{"rendered":"Accreditation actions increased during financial downturn [Kelderman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/bottomline\/accreditation-actions-increased-during-financial-downturn\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Accreditation actions increased during financial downturn<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from The Chronicle by Eric Kelderman<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cNot long ago, accreditation sanctions were rare. Now, in response to growing government criticism of poor disclosure about quality, pricing, and outcomes, as well as inefficient cost management, accreditors are taking more aggressive and quicker actions to bolster their role in demonstrating quality and performance standards in U.S. higher education,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The main reasons for the actions are, not surprisingly, financial troubles for colleges struggling with endowment losses, cuts in state appropriations, and the growing institutional costs of student financial aid. But accreditors are also focusing more attention on outcomes, including assessing student learning and\u00a0graduation rates, the report says.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>If the public wants change in higher ed, I might suggest starting with changing <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>who<\/em> <\/span>is on the accreditation teams.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Historically speaking, things don&#8217;t seem to have changed that much with all <em>insiders<\/em> on these teams.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(I wondered when these agencies were going to start sensing some heat in their kitchens.\u00a0 If I could make at least one prediction for 2013, it&#8217;s that the temperatures in those kitchens are going to go up in 2013. I&#8217;ll probably make more predictions, but I think that one is low-hanging fruit!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accreditation actions increased during financial downturn &#8212; from The Chronicle by Eric Kelderman Excerpt: \u201cNot long ago, accreditation sanctions were rare. Now, in response to growing government criticism of poor disclosure about quality, pricing, and outcomes, as well as inefficient cost management, accreditors are taking more aggressive and quicker actions to bolster their role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,86,72,36,35,3],"tags":[768,614,606,586,585,566],"class_list":["post-35739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-change","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","tag-accreditation","tag-change","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35743,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions\/35743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}