First, the order complains that accredited institutions yield measurably low student outcomes and asks the Education ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to shake up the college accreditation process, a topic that rarely gets political sunlight but is immensely important to universities.

At its best, accreditation is a neutral referee — a mechanism to ensure educational quality, institutional integrity, and ...

Accreditation is a process that evaluates whether ... can transfer credits between institutions. The executive order would reshape the college accreditation system, aligning it with the ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon argued this week that accreditors wield too much power. But some statements raise questions ...

President Trump’s new executive ... accreditation, and much more. A few of the policies in the order warrant special comment. If I didn’t know better, I might wonder what all the fuss was about.

On April 23, 2025, the White House issued an executive order directing the Secretary ... and to further reform and streamline the accreditation process to ensure high value and high quality ...

(The Hill) — The Education Department announced Thursday it would be changing how universities change college accreditors while attempting to make it easier for new accreditors to get on the scene.

A recent executive order attacks ... in accreditation-related activity under the guise of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives.” Accreditation is a process where an independent ...

Accreditation does need reform, but the Trump administration seeks to weaponize it to push an impoverished vision for higher ...

This is all, of course, in defiance of a raft of executive orders to ... the return on investment of a modern college education. The college accreditation process is a formal recognition that ...