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Why Are We Assessing?
The assessment movement has inspired valuable research and numerous organizations, but Linda Suskie asks whether colleges really know why these efforts matter.
Looking West
As largest regional accreditor toughens stance on for-profit colleges, two major companies, Bridgepoint and Argosy, seek shift to Western region -- which says it won't be a patsy.
Governance Spat Threatens Accreditor
One of the country's six regional accrediting agencies risks losing its federal recognition if it is unable to alter its...
Standing Up to 'Accreditation Shopping'
Critics of for-profit higher education have of late drawn attention to what they see as a pattern of "accreditation shopping"...
Southern Accreditor Acts on Several Colleges
Signs of the economic downturn are evident many places you turn in higher education these days: in the exploding demand...
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The White Noise of Accountability
Cliff Adelman explores the rhetoric and practice surrounding an oft-used phrase -- and asks readers to consider six frameworks for thinking about the word before they next utter it.
Angst for an Accreditor
College presidents, faculty/staff unions and state education leaders rarely agree about anything. But mutual frustration with a regional accreditor has...