Trump Wields ‘Secret Weapon’ of Accreditation

Trump Wields ‘Secret Weapon’ of Accreditation

“President Donald Trump and his allies are using a little-known but powerful corner of higher education — college accreditation — to exert pressure on colleges and universities, an effort that threatens the independence of accreditors and the stability of the institutions they approve,” the Washington Post reports. “Accrediting agencies, which have existed for more than a century, determine whether colleges meet standards of quality by evaluatin…

Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation

The administration is trying to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to use accreditation, a critical stamp of approval for colleges, to remake higher education.

Harvard May Not Meet Accreditation Standards Due to Tolerance of Widespread Campus Antisemitism

Jewish students at Harvard were spat on for wearing yarmulkes, stalked and subjected to chants of “Heil Hitler” — and Harvard was either “deliberately indifferent” or even a “willful participant” in the antisemitic abuse, according to a new report. President Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism informed Harvard President Alan Garber in a letter that the university is in violation of federal civil rights laws over the antisemitism on …