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Accreditation: Will We Love It or Leave It or Reform it?

Accreditation: Will We Love It or Leave It or Reform it?

Update: 2015-08-05
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Four different perspectives on the strengths and challenges facing accreditation as our primary quality assurance process for higher education and the reforms that may be in the future.













































Individual Questions:
Compliance vs. quality improvement, where should the emphasis lie? (10:14 )
Accreditation Reforms: What should be considered by Congress in the next Higher Education Act reauthorization? (10:18 )
Are criticisms of accreditation: that it is a barrier to innovation and lacks transparency, justified? (6:26 )
Transparency of standards, process, outcomes and terminology. (7:43 )
Ratings and Rankings: Can they co-exist with accreditation? (9:40 )
Comparative institutional data: Does it inevitably lead to bright line benchmarks? (2:43 )
What is in the future? Quality assurance for non-institutional providers? Different regulations for programmatic accreditors?

Risk-based accreditation? An end to the “federal war on for-profits?” (23:10 )

Podcast Intro and Exit music by Won (FLT RSK) / CC BY-NC 3.0 Produced in conjunction with the Average Guy Podcast Network

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Accreditation: Will We Love It or Leave It or Reform it?

Accreditation: Will We Love It or Leave It or Reform it?

kathryn dodge, alison griffin and elise scanlon