Joint Advisory Statement on Boards and Accreditation

HEADLINES

Groups Call for College Trustees To Learn More About Accreditation (Higher Ed Dive, March 30, 2022) "Many of the people who sit on colleges' governing boards are not from the academy and might not be familiar with processes like accreditation, said Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, CHEA's president." (See also Guidance on Accreditation for Governing Boards, Inside Higher Ed, March 31, 2022)

San Quentin Prison College Gains Accreditation (Marin Independent Journal, March 30, 2022) "Mount Tamalpais College, a program for inmates at San Quentin State Prison, has been granted accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges."

Looking for a New Accreditor (Inside Higher Ed, March 21, 2022) "Five New York colleges and universities are looking to the New England Commission of Higher Education for accreditation, and if it is granted, they could become some of the first institutions to receive the stamp of approval from an accrediting agency outside their region."

How One University Drowned Itself in Red Ink (The Chronicle of Higher Education [subscription required], March 18, 2022) "Carolyn Fast, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said accreditors and regulators like the Higher Learning Commission or the West Virginia commission are often too hesitant to act against failing institutions out of fear that their interventions might force closure. But such restraint carries its own risks."