September 24, 2024
On September 19, 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed the End Woke Higher Education Act (H.R. 3724) by a vote of 213 to 201 with four Democrats joining the Republican......
June 22, 2023
The “diversity” bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors.
July 29, 2022
The National Association of Scholars supports Governor Ron DeSantis in his struggle against the U.S. Department of Education’s effort to undermine Florida’s accreditation reform law.
July 26, 2022
The new Florida accreditation law is a great opportunity to determine whether a simple change could solve some of the deep-rooted problems in the current accreditation system.
May 24, 2021
SACSCOC threatened Florida State University's accreditation after FSU named Richard Corcoran a candidate for university president. This may have been a politically motivated intervention.
June 15, 2017
Spencer Kashmanian writes about the need to reform accreditation requirements.
April 8, 2016
NAS Director of Communications David Randall writes about the accreditation struggle in California.
October 22, 2015
NAS board member Gail Heriot asks Congress to keep educational accreditors from forcing racial preferences on colleges and universities.
January 16, 2013
Rich DeMillo writes for the Pope Center about the future of accreditation in colleges and universities.
March 19, 2012
Will the newly formed accrediting agency for education schools enact some real reforms to improve K-12 education?