Politics Notebook | Iowa Senate gives final approval for bill allowing regent universities to sue accreditors - The Daily Iowan

Politics Notebook | Iowa Senate gives final approval for bill allowing regent universities to sue accreditors - The Daily Iowan

The Iowa Senate gave the final approval for a bill allowing Iowa’s regent universities to sue their accredditors if they lose accreditation for following state law on Thursday.  The bill, House File 295, would allow the universities to bring suit themselves or ask the Iowa Attorney General to bring suit against the accrediting body.  Many accrediting bodies require certain DEI programs within universities to receive their accreditation. Previous…

Bill aiming to stop accreditors from targeting law-abiding state universities heads to governor

The Iowa Senate has sent a bill to Gov. Kim Reynolds’s desk that would bar penalization from accreditors to universities for following state law, despite concerns from some lawmakers that it would not prevent universities from potentially losing accreditation. House…