accreditation & accountability Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/accreditation-accountability/ A Blog by ACE Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:42:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png accreditation & accountability Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/accreditation-accountability/ 32 32 The Success of College Unbound https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/success-college-unbound/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:42:30 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16008 College Unbound, a nonprofit, independent college in Providence, Rhode Island, serves low-income working adults who are returning to college to earn their first degree. Four years ago, College Unbound was authorized as the 13th college in Rhode Island (the first new college in the state in two decades). Since then, it has earned candidacy for regional accreditation and qualified to participate ...

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]]> College Unbound and Education Reform https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/college-unbound-education-reform/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:17:41 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15999 By Johan E. Uvin During my last year as acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, I had the opportunity to visit College Unbound twice. The first time, I joined Lul Tesfai, my then colleague, and spent the night meeting students and participating in classes. Students shared their stories and their struggles in higher education before they got to ...

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]]> A College Unbound https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/a-college-unbound/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:16:59 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15997 By Robert L. Carothers In 2015, I joined the board of College Unbound (CU) after stepping down from serving as the president at the University of Rhode Island for 18 years. I did so because Dennis Littky had a vision of creating a college that would serve marginalized people who had once started college before life got in the way of ...

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]]> A Unique Experiment in Serving the Educationally Underserved https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/unique-experiment-serving-educationally-underserved/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:15:03 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15993 By David A. Bergeron Delivering high-quality postsecondary education to adult learners has long been a challenge. Traditional institutions of higher education are structured to recruit those soon to graduate from high school and, for the most part, are equipped to educate them once they get their high school diploma. Or at least that’s what they are designed to do best. Despite ...

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]]> A College Unbound: Cohorts, Educational Trauma, and Micromodels as Catalysts for Innovation https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/college-unbound-cohorts-educational-trauma-micromodels-catalysts-innovation/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:45:58 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15975 By Louis Soares and Ursula Gross The mismatch between a traditional college education and the vast number of adults who would benefit from a college degree is no small matter. There are at least 35 million adults who have some credit but no degree, and more than twice that have not even attempted postsecondary education, as we report in our new ...

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]]> The Accountability Movement, College Choice and the Importance of Place https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/06/01/the-accountability-movement-college-choice-and-the-importance-of-place/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:36:53 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5038 By Jonathan M. Turk & Nicholas Hillman Since taking office in 2009, expanding college access has been a major goal of the Obama administration. While there has been a multifaceted approach to increasing the number of Americans with a postsecondary credential, a key focus has been on informing the college choice process. Specifically, the administration has sought to ensure better information ...

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]]> Exploding Myths: What’s Right With Regional  Accreditation https://www.higheredtoday.org/2014/01/14/exploding-myths-whats-right-with-regional-accreditation/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:25:23 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=978 By Ralph A. Wolff Regional accreditation—long an overlooked corner of higher education—has lately come under fire from multiple directions: From the government, which tends to see accreditors as too lax; from institutions, which often resent the administrative burden and perceived presumptuousness of accreditation agencies’ scrutiny; and from outside players who see regional accreditors either as ineffective in dealing with low-performing institutions ...

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