“False claims that accreditors allow institutions to impose ideologies or take advantage of students and taxpayers are not only offensive, but they also blatantly misrepresent the objectives of the accreditation system,” CRAC said in the flyer. To understand what the accreditation system may look like during Trump’s second term, Higher Ed Dive spoke with two officials from the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, a group that vets and advocates for accreditors: Cynthia Jackson Hammond, president of CHEA, and Jan Friis, the organization’s senior vice president for government affairs.
