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Title IV Accreditation: Regulatory Capture and Competition
The U.S. Department of Education has announced its intention to develop new regulations for its recognition of collegiate accreditation organizations for purposes of institutional eligibility for federal student aid. Department officials have been quite critical [...]
Understanding College Accreditation’s Current Weaknesses Through an Historical Lens
Introduction This paper presents a brief history of how voluntary nongovernmental accreditation first emerged around the turn of the 20th century and how it evolved, presented in order to highlight and understand the erosion of [...]
Our Oral Comment to NACIQI Regarding WSCUC- December 2025 Meeting
Good afternoon. I’m Allison Muth with Veterans Education Success, a nonprofit research, policy, and student veteran advocacy organization. We have helped more than 5000 students in the last decade, many of whom had negative experiences [...]
Our Letter to the Department of Education Re: Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges.
December 5, 2024 Herman Bounds, Director, Accreditation Group U.S. Department of Education Via email: ThirdPartyComments@ed.gov RE: Written Comments - Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges Dear Director Bounds, We write in response to the [...]
Student Veteran Submission: Matthew C. Testimony to the Department of Education, March 2024
Good afternoon, my name is Matthew. I feel duty-bound to share my experience at Sonoran Desert Institute to help other veterans. After I got out of the Army, I first attended a Community College near [...]
Student Veteran Submission: Caitlin Kadell Testimony to the Department of Education, March 2024
Good afternoon. My name is Caitlin Kadell, and I’m a Marine Corps veteran. I would like to take a few minutes today to talk about my time at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. In 2014, [...]
Student Veteran Submission: David Thibodeau Testimony to the Department of Education, March 2024
Good afternoon. My name is David Thibodeau. In 2008, a few years after my service in the Army National Guard, I enrolled in DeVry University in the Game & Simulation online program. I saw advertisements [...]
Student Veteran Submission: Amanda Sacoto-Dunbar Testimony to the Department of Education, March 2024
Hi, my name is Amanda Sacoto-Dunbar. Following my time in the Army, I decided to go to school. I completed a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in criminal justice, without any issues. I knew [...]
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National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) on Accreditation to the Department of Education
January 20, 2022 Herman Bounds Director, Accreditation Group Office of Postsecondary Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 Dear Director Bounds: We submit this letter on behalf of the undersigned [...]
USA Today: This college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn’t find evidence of students or faculty
"Reagan National University was supposed to be a place of higher learning, but it was unclear how it awarded degrees. By all appearances, at present, it has no students, no faculty and no classrooms. An [...]