Articles on Higher Education

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Texas A&M System’s guidance on the state’s DEI ban shows compliance might be a hard needle to thread

HLC Launches New Credential Lab to Meet a Quality Assurance Need in a Chaotic Credential Landscape

For Selective Institutions, Progress and Backsliding on Socioeconomic Diversity

Yale Reaches Agreement on Affirmative Action Case

Summer 2023

Florida’s Accreditation Shuffle Begins

Biden Administration Releases Guidance on Affirmative Action

Legislating an End to Legacy Preferences

Poaching From the Neighbor’s Yard

Accreditation Can Support Diversity Efforts in the Wake of the Supreme Court Decision

House Subcommittee Members Disagree Over Higher Ed’s Value

Affirmative Action for the Rich

In Statehouses, Tenure Was Bruised, But DEI Was Walloped

Accreditation experts fire back on Florida HEA lawsuit

Reading Between the Lines on Affirmative Action

Tenure Survives in Texas; DEI Offices Do Not

DOWN: North Carolina legislature seeks to break up accreditation monopoly

AAUP Calls to Fight ‘Tooth and Nail’ in Florida

DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programs at Florida public colleges

Trump’s ‘Secret Weapon’? College Accreditation

North Dakota Just Enacted a ‘Specified Concepts’ Bill. Here’s What It Says

What the Supreme Court Rejection of Affirmative Action Means

DeSantis Challenges Constitutionality of Accreditation

Senate bill would block accreditors from weighing DEI, affirmative action policies

‘Fire the Accreditors’ Is a Bad – and Illegal – Idea

Education Department Eyes New Requirements for All Programs

Why Students Opt Not to Enroll

DEI as an ‘Act of Resistance’

Podcast: Higher Ed 101: Accreditation Explained

Spring 2023

Lawmakers Sought to Remove DEI from Higher Ed. Now They’re Scrubbing It From the Bill

The Role of Politics in Where Students Want to Go to College

Alabama higher education official vows support for college DEI efforts

DEI Legislation Tracker

What the Accreditation Naysayers Don’t Understand

What is Accreditation? Your Biggest Questions About College Accreditation Answered

Winter 2023

Iowa Bill Aims to Defund College DEI Efforts

Battle Lines Drawn Over Fight Over List

Education Department Plans to Publish List of Low-Performing Programs

The Heart of Accreditation with Dr. Belle Wheelan

Faculty Diversification Must Accelerate, Report Says

Faculties So White

Time to Rethink University Accreditation

Channeling Orwell, Judge Blasts Florida’s ‘Dystopian’ Ban on ‘Woke’ Instruction