Accreditation

Top Education Department official describes plan to "rethink" higher-education standards through new rule-making process, to be announced today, on accreditation, the credit hour standard, the faculty role online and more.

Nonprofit National University System seeks to expand into online graduate and doctoral programs by buying for-profit Northcentral University.

University is supposed to abide by standards requiring honesty and integrity. But is it in compliance after revealing that its business school lied for years to get higher rankings? U.S. News also seeks more information.

Grand Canyon, a large, thriving Christian for-profit, will divide in two, with new nonprofit university giving for-profit company 60 percent of tuition in exchange for a broad range of support services.

Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors.

Describing his service on a voluntary visiting team, Bob Ubell defends regional accreditation as a form of “deliberative democracy” and urges us not to hand it over to a federal education police force.

Before education secretary restored federal recognition to ACICS, report by department staff failed the organization on numerous standards.

After becoming the first public college in California to lose accreditation, Compton College is preparing to stand on its own once again.