Accreditation does need reform, but the Trump administration seeks to weaponize it to push an impoverished vision for higher ed, Jeremy D. Penn writes.

As soon as accreditation becomes a key for unlocking government funding, the lines between public and private begin to blur.

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 23 titled, "Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education," which promises a significant ...

The college accreditation process is a formal recognition that an institution meets specific standards of educational quality and academic rigor — or so we are told. But increasingly ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to shake up the college accreditation process, a topic that rarely gets political sunlight but is immensely important to universities.

Accreditation reinforces the department's ... “You do that by sending pictures of how you handled situations, send your police reports, you have to give examples.” 'It's going to be amazing ...

“We’re going after accreditation and federal support of colleges that ... “We would consider that in the overall picture we’re looking at,” she said. Flores at New America attributed Scalise’s ...