U.S. Department of Education to Focus on Accreditation, Consumer Protection, Accountability in Negotiated Rulemaking.
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U.S. Focused on Consumer Protection, Accountability in Rules Overhaul (Inside Higher Ed, January 5, 2023) The Department of Education is aiming to further reshape how the federal government holds colleges accountable and add additional consumer protections for students. “The department is inserting itself more deeply into higher education than it previously has been,” said Jan Friis, senior vice president for government affairs at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Washington Watch: ED Begins a New Round of ‘Neg Reg’ (Opinion) (Community College Daily, January 8, 2024) The USDE aims to increase the rigor of accreditation by determining how ED can ensure that the standards agencies use to assess the quality of education are “sufficiently rigorous.”
State Legislative Outlook: Seven Higher Education Issues to Watch In 2024 (Forbes, January 7, 2024) A new target for conservative lawmakers is the accreditation of colleges and universities. Upset with some decisions by accreditors over curriculum and institutional governance, states are passing legislation requiring public institutions to change accreditors within a certain period of time.
Education Department Unveils Policy Proposals for Accreditation, State Authorization (Higher Ed Dive, January 4, 2024) The U.S. Department of Education unveiled several regulatory proposals around accreditation, distance education, and state authorization ahead of policy negotiations next week. The proposals are in part intended to ensure that accreditors and state authorizing agencies are adequately monitoring the colleges under their purview, the Education Department said in an announcement.
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