{"id":71423,"date":"2020-07-15T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71423"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:14:33","slug":"how-might-increased-competition-amongst-accreditors-impact-innovation-within-higher-education-is-thats-whats-been-missing-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/15\/how-might-increased-competition-amongst-accreditors-impact-innovation-within-higher-education-is-thats-whats-been-missing-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"How might increased competition amongst accreditors impact innovation within higher education? Is that&#8217;s what&#8217;s been missing? [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DC: Now there\u2019s a thought\/question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How might increased competition amongst <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/accreditors?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#accreditors<\/a> impact <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/innovation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#innovation<\/a> within <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HigherEducation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HigherEducation<\/a>?!<\/p>\n<p>Is that\u2019s what\u2019s been missing? Hmmm&#8230;could easily be an incredible time of change these next few years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5R8Ov8EjiU\">https:\/\/t.co\/5R8Ov8EjiU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Christian (@dchristian5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dchristian5\/status\/1283228099962863619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Which links to this article:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/another-regional-accreditor-drops-geographic-limits\/581610\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Another regional accreditor drops geographic limits <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from educationdive.com by Hallie Busta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msche.org\/2020\/07\/13\/a-message-from-msche-president-dr-heather-f-perfetti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>\u00a0Monday that it will accept applications for accreditation from institutions located outside its historical territory, which is primarily the mid-Atlantic states.<\/li>\n<li>It will also begin taking applications from international institutions seeking accreditation.<\/li>\n<li>MSCHE is the second of the country&#8217;s seven historically regional accreditors to make such a move, the result of new federal regulations removing their geographic boundaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">We will\u00a0<strong>consider the ways that the Commission engages in its work and whether an alternative structure may be necessary to support the changing nature of accreditation<\/strong>, and its more modern demands. Believe it or not, our requirements and standards are also scheduled for evaluation.\u00a0 We will need to begin to have conversations about the ways we can improve the language of our requirements and standards or our accreditation processes.\u00a0 &#8212;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msche.org\/2020\/07\/13\/a-message-from-msche-president-dr-heather-f-perfetti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC: Now there\u2019s a thought\/question&#8230; How might increased competition amongst #accreditors impact #innovation within #HigherEducation?! Is that\u2019s what\u2019s been missing? Hmmm&#8230;could easily be an incredible time of change these next few years. https:\/\/t.co\/5R8Ov8EjiU \u2014 Daniel Christian (@dchristian5) July 15, 2020 Which links to this article: Another regional accreditor drops geographic limits &#8212; from educationdive.com by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[415,61,86,209,115,302,823,3,180,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-credentialing","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71423","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=71423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71425,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71423\/revisions\/71425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}