On January 26, Trump’s Education Department announced it would begin accepting applications for a new committee—the Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization Committee (or “AIM”), which will study the current accreditation system for colleges and universities and then recommend reforms. Right now, higher education institutions can only participate in the federal student loan program (also known as Title IV funding, in reference to the Higher Education Act of 1965) if they receive approval, or accreditation, from an organization recognized by the Education Department as competent and trustworthy for this purpose.
Needless to say, however, the accreditation system is broken, as is much of higher education. One need only look at today’s college graduates, who are more indebted and ignorant than ever, including in areas such as financial literacy (hence the debt), American civics and history, and world geography and politics. Tragically, college students and their families pay more and more to get and learn less and less.
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