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Trends in Accreditation

How Will Accreditors Once Again Become Relevant for Higher Education?
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From Volume 49 Number 1 | October–December 2020
By Lynn Priddy, PhD, with Stephen G. Pelletier
Planning Types: Academic Planning

Having been on both the inside of regional accreditation and outside looking back on it, Lynn Priddy knows that accreditation has long tried to revolutionize itself, while at the same time increasingly becoming subject to federal regulatory burdens and expectations from the Department of Education. That has backed it into becoming a bureaucracy at the very time it needed to break out to focus on innovation, learning, and student success.

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