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Download full textUS House of Representatives, 2017
This document records testimony from a hearing held to examine strengthening accreditation to better protect students and taxpayers. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Virginia Foxx, Chairwoman, Committee on Education and the Workforce; and (2) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Ranking Member, Committee on Education and the Workforce.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Educational Quality, Accountability
Direct linkChildress, Cameron; Ward, James Dean; Pisacreta, Elizabeth Davidson; Chen, Sunny – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
The accreditation process and the federal role in shaping it are clearly of critical importance for ensuring all students have access to quality postsecondary options. And yet, due to the complexity of the relationship among the federal government, accreditors, and institutions, and the opacity of the accreditation process itself, there is little…
Descriptors: Government Role, Accreditation (Institutions), Access to Education, Educational Quality
US Senate, 2016
This hearing is the fourth in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions' series examining issues in postsecondary education in anticipation of reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Accreditation's role is to help ensure an acceptable level of quality across a wide spectrum of American higher education. Under the Higher…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Educational Needs
