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One Clear Way to Stop College Accreditation Fraud
« on: February 24, 2019, 04:39:46 pm »
One Clear Way to Stop College Accreditation Fraud

    By George Leef February 21, 2019


The college accreditation system is supposed to uphold academic quality and integrity. Many Americans assume that if a college or university is accredited, that is equivalent to the Underwriter’s Laboratories (UL) seal on appliances – that it has been tested and found to be of good quality. Accreditation is a reliable stamp of approval, isn’t it?

Well, no.

A college or university can be accredited and yet have pathetically weak academic standards that allow students to graduate even though they have learned little or nothing. The book Academically Adrift by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa found that high percentages of college graduates had hardly advanced at all in basic knowledge and skills over their four or more years in school.

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2019/02/21/one-clear-way-to-stop-college-accreditation-fraud/