In this recent publication from John Hopkins University Press, authors Susan D. Phillips and Kevin Kinser brought “together the expertise of different stakeholders to illustrate the complexities of the accreditation system and to map the critical issues that must be navigated going forward.” ACTA’s past president Anne D. Neal and current vice president of trustee & government affairs Armand Alacbay contributed a chapter entitled, Fixing a Broken Accreditation System: How to Bring quality Assurance into the Twenty-First Century. ACTA hosted a panel discussion on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, aimed at exploring issues addressed in the book. You can purchase the book on amazon.com.
This policy paper is intended as a primer for policymakers on lessons learned from decades of experience with the federal system of higher education accreditation. It streamlines, updates, and expands ACTA’s 2002 investigation, Can College Accreditation Live Up to Its Promise? At that time we found that accreditation did not ensure quality, was not protecting […]
ACTA president Anne D. Neal gives a presentation to the “Law Innovation and Growth: Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Retreat,” hosted by KAUFFMAN The Foundation of Entrepreneurship.
ACTA president Anne Neal participates in “Keeping College Within Reach: Discussing Program Quality through Accreditation” in Washington DC, a public hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, part of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
For its most recent hearing on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delved into accreditation―what it is and how it might be improved. A number of accrediting bodies in the United States have come under scrutiny in the past few years for their involvement […]
WASHINGTON — The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Distance Education Accrediting Commission just happened to be the two agencies whose turn it was to appear before the federal panel on accreditation that met here Tuesday. It hardly mattered, though, as the discussion before the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity […]
The college accreditation system is supposed to uphold academic quality and integrity. Many Americans assume that if a college or university is accredited, that is equivalent to the Underwriter’s Laboratories (UL) seal on appliances – that it has been tested and found to be of good quality. Accreditation is a reliable stamp of approval, isn’t […]
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