By Adam Kissel, Author of Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation
Today's higher education accreditors
let colleges and universities get away with mediocrity: low graduation rates,
highly negative return on investment, and activism that looks little like
scholarship. Accreditors are meant to vouch for college quality and to
recommend improvements - but they rarely hold
institutions accountable for such travesties as a four-year graduation rate
under 15%, a negative return on investment in six figures, and pervasive
antisemitism. Instead, they often require "diversity"
practices that bleed into illegal discrimination. Fortunately, university systems in
six states have formed a new accreditor to focus on "academic excellence" and
"student outcomes." [more...]
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