The federal government’s system for accrediting colleges is a misguided failure that should be largely replaced with a simpler method that relies on key institutional data about cost and quality, a ...

Members of a House of Representatives subcommittee, meeting last week to assess the role of accreditation in higher education, largely criticized the country’s 50-year-old accreditation system as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Griffin covers postsecondary education and the future of work. Technological shifts also represent a fundamental ...

With the release of 2022-2023 school accreditation ratings in Virginia on Thursday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin shared comments. He said, in a press release, that the “ratings do not reflect catastrophic ...

The federal government needs a way to distinguish between universities that will be good stewards of financial aid dollars and those that will not. What makes a college a college? These days, anyone ...

Some issues in higher education are obvious and newsworthy—expensive tuition, say, or protesting students pitching tents on the campus quad. Others, though equally serious, are less visible.

The University of North Carolina System will join five other Southern states to form a new accreditor for their public universities. The effort is a first-of-its-kind endeavor that comes as ...

After three-and-a-half years spent pursuing districtwide accreditation, the Jefferson Parish public school system is on the cusp of achieving that goal. The district was recommended for accreditation ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is defending a new system that will grade the performance of public schools in the state beginning in the 2025-26 school year. Last week, Virginia's ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Five Henrico County schools have lost their “full” accreditation status and two different ones gained it in the wake of recent updates to the Virginia Department of ...

MARIETTA — The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers administered by the American College of Surgeons has granted accredited status to Memorial Health System’s Cancer Center. To achieve ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — In a 7-1 vote, the Virginia Board of Education voted to implement a new accreditation policy that could add a rating, or ranking, to all public schools Under Virginia's current ...