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The Education Department's advisory panel on accreditation voted Friday to accept a final report on its recommendations for revamping the nation's quality assurance system for higher education, making few changes to a draft report that riled institutions and some members of the panel. The recommendations of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity call for maintaining the link between accreditation and institutions' eligibility for federal financial aid programs, despite a proposal from two of the committee's members -- Anne Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, and Arthur Rothkopf, president emeritus of Lafayette College. But the panel recommends other changes to the nation's accreditation system, including setting minimum consumer protection standards for states and urging the department to "encourage a dialogue" about sector-based accreditation.
