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Sunday, June 24, 2018
An Inside Look at Why Accreditation Works - Robert Ubell, Inside Higher Ed
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. In response to a recent signal that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos may be exploring alternatives to our present higher education accreditation practices, let’s take a look at what it’s like to be on the inside of a regional accrediting team.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/06/14/inside-look-why-regional-accreditation-works-opinion