Filter & Sort
Plan to Define and Test What Students Should Know
New book unveils faculty-led effort to chart concepts and competencies students should learn in six academic disciplines, with plan to create standardized tests. Will faculty members warm to this version of "learning outcomes"?
Watchdog Barks -- and Gets Slapped Down
National accreditor ACICS, which faces an existential threat for being too lax with bad actors like Corinthian Colleges, tried to yank its approval of Bristol U, a deeply troubled for-profit. But a judge blocked the accreditor's move.
Change in Ownership?
A decision today by Apollo Education Group's shareholders could determine today whether U of Phoenix is sold or not.
Monitoring the Gatekeepers
Obama administration continues to turn up pressure on accreditors, promising in new letter to measure the agencies against their peers and urging more focus on student achievement and troubled colleges.
CCSF Back on the Brink
Taxpayers in California and San Francisco helped City College sort out its accreditation crisis and loss of a third of its students. But the new money runs dry soon, and faculty plan strike next week over brewing budget fight.
Accreditor Victory in Duel With CFPB
Federal judge rules Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lacks the authority to investigate for-profit-college accreditors.
Sudden Departure at For-Profit Accreditor
Head of embattled for-profit-college agency resigns.
Opinion
SLO Madness
The student learning outcomes accreditors require too often reduce learning to inane, meaningless blurbs, writes Robert Shireman, which prevent the sort of quality assurance that puts student work at the center.