The “diversity” bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors.
Congress may soon revisit the federal law governing post-secondary education, the Higher Education Act of 1965. If it does, Representative Burgess Owens (R-Utah) wants the effort to expose and correct the murky mischief of our accreditation system. That system was supposed to ensure institutional quality before schools could get federal funds like Title IV student…