Last August, Congress pulled the plug on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, amid a sense that the Bush administration had overly politicized [1] the U.S. Education Department's advisory panel on accreditation. On Monday, the Education Department announced [2] that it would take nominations for the six seats that Education Secretary Arne Duncan can fill on the newly reconstituted 18-member panel; the House and Senate will each appoint six members, too.