For example, she reinstated the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, the accrediting agency of for-profit colleges.
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The culprit in both cases was the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, the nation's largest accrediting body of for-profit schools.
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The accrediting agency was also plagued with conflicts of interest.
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CrossFit makes its money by accrediting trainers and licensing its name to owners.
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The move comes as the accrediting agency continues to be the target of criticism.
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As federal law school debt mounts, discontent with the accrediting process has been building.
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The accrediting body was held responsible for allowing the schools to employ predatory recruitment practices.
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"The real stopgap there is that we are overseen by the accrediting partner university," Rasmussen said.
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So did the website of the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges, a national body.
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The bar association's accrediting body will soon consider changes to the rules governing law school admissions.
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Corinthian's accreditor, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), has a lot to worry about.
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The majority of the company's campuses were accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
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The Association of Zoos and Aquariums, an accrediting agency, also announced that it was investigating the Harambe episode.
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President Trump's 2020 budget includes a proposal to allow disclosure of survey reports from accrediting organizations, Verma said.
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It decides which accrediting organizations can, in turn, make colleges eligible to grant visas and receive federal aid.
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But accrediting agencies remain the first line of defense on quality and the primary gatekeepers to financial aid.
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The EAC, as its name suggests, offers voluntary help to states, including accrediting laboratories to test voting machines.
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Planning is paramountEach hospital is required to have an emergency plan, usually approved by the hospital's accrediting body.
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Unaccountable accrediting bodies should not have the right to overrule a governor or intervene in matters involving state law.
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But they all had one thing in common: They were approved to receive federal funding by an accrediting organization.
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Planning is paramount Each hospital is required to have an emergency plan, usually approved by the hospital's accrediting body.
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A recent Center for American Progress report on the accrediting group scrolls out a long list of incompetence and wrongdoing.
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Orders added victim assistance offices and background screenings for candidates, and hired accrediting companies to audit their sexual abuse responses.
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But over the last decade, one accrediting agency known as the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) broke the public's trust repeatedly and gave its stamp of approval to no less than 17 institutions that ended up under federal or state investigation, including the now-shuttered ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges.
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When YWA debuted, Mishler began with basic poses, accrediting her slight nervousness as a reason for starting with the practice's foundations.
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Remember that accrediting review teams are comprised largely of administrators and faculty, the same stakeholders that benefit from the status quo.
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When the Obama administration revoked Acics's accrediting powers, the Education Department found that it had racked up nearly two dozen violations.
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The A.B.A.'s accrediting body had placed the school on probation after finding its disclosures for students fell short of requirements.
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Its problems have placed greater scrutiny on the A.B.A. and its accrediting arm in their role as watchdog for legal education.
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Accrediting agencies are uniquely situated to assess specific student outcomes at institutions and, to some extent, already take them into account.
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Last fall, its lawyers acknowledged that, yes, we have deeply flawed classes, but that is a matter for an accrediting organization.
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The judge's action was cheered by for-profit agencies that had long complained that the Obama administration targeted the accrediting organization unfairly.
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He said they had passed regular checks by an accrediting agency and had not been breached since the exhibit opened in 1978.
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Ms. Jones's recommendation to reinstate the accrediting council, which is now struggling financially, is under investigation by the Education Department's inspector general.
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And because it is exempt from for-profit regulations, Liberty is ultimately accountable only to state regulators and the college's accrediting organization.
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Hickenlooper expected to end presidential bid on Thursday MORE (D-Colo.) reintroduce a bill to create new types of accrediting organizations. Sen.
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The leading standards-setting and accrediting body for medical treatment in the US, the commission has assessed more than 20,000 health care organizations.
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And they contend that a reinstatement of the banished accrediting council could remedy the unfair treatment meted out by the previous White House.
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The Obama administration revoked the agency's accrediting power after it had racked up nearly two dozen violations in federal quality and accountability standards.
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Is the office-based surgical facility accredited by a nationally or state-recognized accrediting agency, or is it state-licensed or Medicare-certified?
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The zoo's director, Thane Maynard, has defended the integrity of the enclosure's barrier, saying that they passed regular checks by an accrediting agency.
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A ProPublica investigation last year found that at least two-thirds of the accrediting group's commissioners worked as executives at for-profit colleges.
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Incredibly, it also cannot dictate the standards or benchmarks by which these accrediting organizations judge whether a school is financially or academically sound.
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Rubio also backs reforms to loan repayment and wants to promote innovation in the higher-education sector by establishing a new accrediting agency.
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Regional accrediting bodies should look into this kind of fraud, as they would any other kind of academic misbehavior, and apply commensurate penalties.
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Details: Following a congressional request in December, the inspector general began investigating DeVos' decision to reinstate ACICS, an accrediting agency the Obama administration discontinued.
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ITT's accrediting agency said in April that ITT Technical Institutes — which provide career-oriented education programs — had not demonstrated compliance with certain accreditation standards.
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The statement also urges governmental regulatory boards and accrediting bodies in health professions to monitor medical and ethical standards of care at these centers.
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In New York State, universities must be accredited by either the State Board of Regents or by one of the federally recognized accrediting commissions.
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There are about 75 regional, national and specialized accrediting agencies that serve as overseers for postsecondary institutions that have access to federal student aid.
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The Department of Education recently shut down the accrediting organization that keeps The Art Institutes and many other for-profits eligible for federal aid.
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Dr. Mark R. Chassin, M.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Joint Commission, nation's largest health care standards-setting and accrediting organization.
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Colleges and universities created accrediting panels as voluntary membership associations in the late 19th century as a way to standardize admissions, curriculum and degree requirements.
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In April, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools told ITT Technical Institute that its schools had not demonstrated that they met certain standards.
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Yet the for-profit industry operates with little local or national oversight, monitored only if localities volunteer to seek review by non-government accrediting groups.
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On May 15th a delegation from India's college-accrediting body paid a visit to Sri Pratap College, the most prestigious centre of higher education in Srinagar.
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In 2150, the accrediting body overseeing Liberty presented a list of more than 217 "recommendations" for staying accredited, including a demand that it reduce its debt.
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Seventeen different colleges and corporate entities approved by the accrediting group to receive federal financial aid have been under government investigation over the last five years.
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Wider accrediting of online learning options such as Massive Open Online Courses -- free online classes to earn college credit -- would make that option easier to utilize.
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The Obama administration stripped that panel of its authority in 2016 for accrediting schools like Corinthian and not doing its part to protect students from fraud.
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His father is based in Chattanooga as the president of the Southern Association of Independent Schools of Norcross, Ga., a regional accrediting association for independent schools.
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So when its accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, came calling in 2013 and asked about this scandal, the university offered a confession.
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"The goal is to pare it back and give colleges and their accrediting agencies more leeway in governing their affairs," Mr. Falwell told a Chronicle reporter.
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Today, Case Western leases only from a handful of pre-screened brokers that follow standards established by the American Association of Tissue Banks, a national accrediting organization.
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Arizona Summit Law school, a troubled for-profit institution owned by the InfiLaw System, has been placed on probation by its accrediting body, the American Bar Association.
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The decisions on accrediting law schools are made by the American Bar Association, which placed Charlotte on a two-year probation but did not withdraw its accreditation.
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This fall, the Education Department moved to revoke the status of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), the largest accreditor of for-profit colleges.
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The division oversaw the granting of gun permits, which it continues to do, and the accrediting of cabdrivers, which has since been delegated to a separate commission.
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The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was responsible for about 240 institutions that received $0003 billion in taxpayer money when it came under scrutiny in 2015.
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An auditor from the American Correctional Association, which is an accrediting body for the corrections industry, toured the jail after the carbon monoxide leak, and reached damning conclusions.
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Nor do accrediting bodies like the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, although the commission has started requiring programs to help patients access medication if they want it.
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Earlier this year, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools ruled that ITT "is not in compliance, and is unlikely to become in compliance" with its standards.
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Judith Eaton is President of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, an association that represents 3,000 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes approximately 60 accrediting organizations.
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This week, the private accrediting group that allowed Corinthian to stay open for business will face its own existential threat, when federal regulators decide whether to shut it down.
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The ease of accrediting ensured, for example, broad coverage of stray Ukrainian artillery strikes hitting the city and sometimes killing civilians, helping discredit Ukraine's actions to win back territory.
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In an encouraging development, the Education Department last month voted to revoke recognition of the main accreditor of for-profit colleges, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
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To qualify for federal loan funds, schools must be vetted and approved by an accrediting agency, which is supposed to investigate and vouch for the institutions' quality and soundness.
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CMS is directing state agencies surveying nursing homes and hospital accrediting organizations to focus their facility inspections exclusively on infection control, as well as serious threats like abuse allegations.
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The Education Department under former President Obama moved to remove the agency's accrediting power in 2016, but following a federal court ruling, the Trump administration reinstated it in 2018.
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From 1972 to 1981, Dr. Zwingle also was first vice chairman of the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, an accrediting organization.
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Accreditation must be more than a rubber stamp; the first step is ensuring that accrediting agencies focus their limited time and resources on outcomes that matter to today's students.
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A showdown of sorts is set for later this month when the American Bar Association's accrediting body plans to hold a public hearing where both sides can air their views.
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Judith Eaton is President of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), which represents 3,000 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes approximately 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations.
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Late last month, the Education Department said ITT Tech was not in compliance and was unlikely to become compliant with Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accreditation criteria.
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The move comes after its accrediting agency suspended approval following allegations that it was racking up debt for students with academic loans while failing to provide them with marketable skills.
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The regional accrediting agencies that certify the quality of education an institution provides — and its fitness to receive federal student financial aid — now require some form of student learning assessment.
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Meanwhile, Asia-based Uber rival Grab said its operations were still up and running after it complied with the regulators' July 26 order to stop accepting and accrediting new drivers.
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Now, that same accrediting council is asking to be reinstated by the Trump administration as a federal gatekeeper for hundreds of degree-granting programs and billions of dollars in federal funds.
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Officials said the school, which was placed on probation in 85033 by its accrediting agency for not having enough resources, is unlikely to be reaccredited, despite selling some property last year.
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Late last month, the Education Department said ITT Tech was not in compliance and was unlikely to become in compliance with Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accreditation criteria.
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BAR ASSOCIATION TO ENFORCE STRICTER TIMELINE FOR PASSING EXAM | The American Bar Association's accrediting body intends to tighten a rule that sets a deadline for graduates to pass state bar exams,
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The department voted to revoke recognition of the main accreditor of for-profit colleges, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, but the action is not final pending an appeal.
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"The goal is to pare it back and give colleges and their accrediting agencies more leeway in governing their affairs," Mr. Falwell, an evangelical Christian, told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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It requires accrediting agencies to ensure that programs are equipping students with the appropriate credentials, and that the programs provide training only for in-demand occupations, as designated by each state.
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All this means that there are more than 200 separate requirements that accrediting organizations must meet to emerge successfully from the recognition review that they undergo at least every five years.
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The agency cannot legally disclose all deficiency information it receives -- such as survey reports from outside accrediting organizations -- but the agency can publish reports from state agencies, according to the inspector general.
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To improve college athlete academic performance, Booker's plan also calls on accrediting agencies and all NCAA-participating colleges to submit plans to the Department of Education for how they will support athletes.
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"Accrediting agencies are supposed to make sure students get a good education and ensure colleges aren't cheating students while sucking down taxpayer money," said Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the sponsors.
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Grassley has also sought a response from The Joint Commission, an accrediting organization, that reportedly designated the Shadow Mountain facility as a "Top Performer in Key Quality Measures" for the 2011-2015 period.
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Though there were once two different systems for accrediting these programs, by 2020 both osteopathic and allopathic post-graduate medical opportunities will fall under one agency, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
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The agency that withdrew Education Corporation of America's certification, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, had its own recent brush with death and regained its federal recognition just two weeks ago.
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The move sets up a high-stakes showdown over the fate of the college accrediting organization, whose stamp of approval allowed 243 colleges to tap into $4.76 billion in federal funding last year.
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The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools — known as A.C.I.C.S. — is one of a few dozen different organizations charged with maintaining standards and quality at the country's more than 5,400 higher education institutions.
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It is also looking to review rules governing the role that accrediting agencies should play in securing federal financial aid for institutions, and that states should play in overseeing programs operating in their jurisdictions.
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The Obama accreditation standards were used last summer to shut down the accrediting organization that oversaw the corporate chains ITT Tech and Corinthian Colleges, both of which collapsed in bankruptcy after allegations of wrongdoing.
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Barry Currier, managing director of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, said on Thursday that the accrediting body had directed Charlotte to file a teach-out plan.
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In challenging the CFPB's authority, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was able to successfully argue that it was the Department of Education, not the CFPB, which has authority to investigate accreditors.
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The federal government maintains an ongoing scrutiny of accrediting organizations, an extensive process known as "recognition," because accredited status is a requirement for institutions and programs to obtain and maintain eligibility for federal funds.
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She denies allegations that there was anything nefarious behind the decision to reinstate the accrediting council, which was prompted by a judge ordering the department to review the Obama administration's decision to banish the accreditor.
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The Education Department's Office of Inspector General, following the V.A.'s lead, conducted an investigation of Ms. DeVos after she reinstated the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or Acics, which had been discredited.
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Thirteen state attorneys general and a top higher education official in Hawaii have called on the Education Department to cut ties with the accreditor, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, known as ACICS.
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The Higher Learning Commission, which is responsible for accrediting institutions, voiced concerns about the quality of education at the two campuses in 2018 and downgraded their status for up to four years, according to the Post.
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BAR ASSOCIATION TO ENFORCE STRICTER TIMELINE FOR PASSING EXAM | The American Bar Association's accrediting body intends to tighten a rule that sets a deadline for graduates to pass state bar exams, Elizabeth Olson reports in DealBook.
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The problem of the Department of Education accrediting institutions that I think don't deserve accreditation, the specific predation and targeting of veterans to maximize revenue when the outcomes are so awful on the for-profit side.
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In March, Acics was accused by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, of accrediting "visa mills," used by foreign students to come to the United States with minimal scrutiny.
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"The fact that the university and our overall accrediting bodies were willing to extend this to us and kind of recruit us in the effort felt like a marker of the gravity of the situation," he said.
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As of 2019, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination will add questions on artificial intelligence, automated investment services and mining unconventional sources of data, an official from the accrediting group that manages the finance credential said this week.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CFA Institute will weigh changing its formidable exam to tackle artificial intelligence and the "big data" investors cull for an edge in markets, a senior official from the U.S. accrediting group said on Tuesday.
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As for non-Rio matters, the IOC said it would no longer be organizing and financing events in Russia, or accrediting officials in the Russian Ministry of Sport, or any other person mentioned in the McLaren Report, for Rio.
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The American Bar Association's accrediting body put law schools on notice Monday that it intended to tighten a rule that sets a deadline for graduates to pass state bar exams — a near-universal requirement for becoming a practicing lawyer.
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In addition to providing accreditation, and thereby opening up the spigot of federal dollars to institutions that engaged in fraudulent practices, the institutions it oversaw also produced the worst student outcomes of any accrediting agency in the United States.
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"We're proud of our elephant facility which includes one of the largest indoor spaces among all accredited North American zoos and exceeds the standards of our accrediting organization, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)," said president and CEO Tom Stalf.
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Medicare's final 13 hospital payment rule set in stone a spate of policies — ranging from a withdrawn proposal that would have required accrediting bodies to make confidential hospital inspections public to a new (and unpopular) system for calculating hospitals' uncompensated care.
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The travel-related donor self-deferral notice, the first measure of its kind taken by the Red Cross for a mosquito-borne disease, came a day after the American Association of Blood Banks, an accrediting organization, called for action, Stramer said.
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The weakness in this hands-off approach was exposed when two of the nation's largest for-profit college operations — Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute — were subjected to fraud investigations and eventually collapsed while under review by a prominent accrediting organization.
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In 1967 she was the principal founder of the first accrediting organization in the United States for professionals in that field, the American Association of Sex Educators and Counselors (later expanded to the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists).
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Mr. Falwell alluded to two Obama initiatives: tightened standards for accrediting organizations that grant colleges access to federal financial aid, and new regulations that govern how students who have been cheated by fraudulent colleges can have their student loans forgiven.
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Whether a longer shift can be better for patients, and for the training of young doctors, has been rigorously studied in two randomized trials, the accrediting council noted — one involving surgeons in training, and the other involving specialists in internal medicine.
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Right now, there are two kinds of major accrediting organizations: Basically, the Trump administration wants to get rid of the distinction between these two types, relaxing the number of requirements schools need to meet in order to get approved for federal money.
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House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Tuesday alleging they have proof of the agency urging an independent watchdog to drop an active internal investigation into DeVos' reinstatement of a controversial accrediting body, NBC News reports.
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It proposes several changes in the law, most important a provision that would require the Education Department to write standards dealing with graduation rates, job placement rates, loan repayment rates and other criteria that accrediting organizations would have to apply when evaluating colleges.
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If Mr. Falwell's task force does indeed recommend rolling back the tougher accrediting standards pushed by the Department of Education, it will heighten a continuing debate in higher education about the optimal balance between government oversight and individual choice among consumers and colleges.
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In 2016, she fired at the accrediting agency that had given its stamp of approval to Corinthian's troubled schools, a group known as ACICS — the peak example, she said, of a broken system that allowed government money to flow to for-profit schools without oversight.
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A report obtained under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Politico shows that senior officials at the Department of Education had serious concerns about the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), which was terminated under the Obama administration in 2016.
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At a time when we are seeing many thousands of students incurring substantial financial damage as a result of their desire to achieve a higher education, too often accrediting agencies have been the rubber stamp for federal aid at predatory higher education institutions. 22019.
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The owners of a now-defunct for-profit law school on Tuesday sued the American Bar Association in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, alleging the accrediting body forced them out of business by arbitrarily placing the school on probation.
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Russia's antidoping laboratory remains subject to a ban from the global agency responsible for accrediting it, so samples collected next summer will be sent to a laboratory in Lausanne — one of about 30 facilities accredited by the global regulator of drugs in sports — for testing.
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Education Department officials said that despite the March report, Ms. DeVos was obligated to reinstate Acics as an accrediting body for colleges and universities because of a federal court order that had faulted the process the Obama-era department had used to terminate its recognition.
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In April, Ms. DeVos temporarily restored recognition of Acics anyway, after a judge found the Obama administration had violated procedural rules by failing to consider more than 30,000 pages of information submitted by the council before the department revoked its recognition as an accrediting body.
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Concord — which, being an online school, has never been accredited by the American Bar Association or the State Bar of California — was previously accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (now called the Distance Education Accrediting Commission), which allows students to apply for federal financial aid.
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The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), a non-profit that is also an "independent accrediting organization for the best zoos and aquariums in America and the world" is phasing out the use of an old elephant handling tool in all 236 AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums.
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"CMS stated that while it supports increased transparency of hospice survey findings, publicly reporting survey reports only from State agencies -- while CMS is currently prohibited from sharing information from surveys by accrediting organizations -- may be misleading to consumers while researching hospice options," according to the inspector general.
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She also recommended the reinstatement of a scandal-plagued accreditor, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, known as A.C.I.C.S., which the Obama administration sought to banish after the collapse of two for-profit chains, ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges, which were under its supervision.
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"The fact that the university and our overall accrediting bodies were willing to extend this to us and kind of recruit us in the effort felt like a marker of the gravity of the situation," Evan Gerber, a fourth year medical student at NYU, told Business Insider.
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The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was stripped of its powers in December 2016 amid the collapse of two for-profit university chains, where tens of thousands of students were encouraged to take on hundreds of millions in debt based on false promises, including jobs after graduation.
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The AZA serves both in an advocacy role and as an accrediting body, holding its members to high standards in areas such as how they treat animals, how they protect visitors and staff, how they educate the community, and how they promote conservation around the country and the world.
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Co-founded by chief executive Rick O'Donnell, who currently serves on the U.S. Department of Education's advisory counsel (NACIQI) that oversees all college accrediting agencies, Skills Fund raised $11.5 million back in 2015 and has a partnership with Iowa Student Loan, a nonprofit with $2.6 billion in active student loans.
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Relations between Egypt's media and the government have deteriorated so severely that, last week, Egyptian police were accused of raiding the headquarters of the Journalists Syndicate (the professional union responsible for protecting, defending, and accrediting journalists and editors for all private and state-run print media) and arresting two journalists, sparking substantial demonstrations.
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In the latest chapter of this "man bites dog" story, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) — one of the six obscure but immensely powerful regional accrediting bodies authorized to serve as gatekeepers of federal financial aid — has gone on a rampage, meddling with state policymaking and the democratic process in both Kentucky and Alabama.
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A 244-page internal document, written by career staff and delivered to the secretary in early March but made public late Friday, found that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or Acics, had failed to meet 57 of 93 federal quality and management compliance standards as it vied to continue operating as a gatekeeper for billions in federal financial aid dollars.
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Whether through the Congress or USDE, we can expect that federal officials to sustain their recent expanded oversight role of accreditation and how it operates, either through new legislation such as reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, increased scrutiny of accrediting organizations in the periodic federal review process ("recognition") or use of recent federal tools such as the enhanced College Scorecard or Accreditation Dashboards of the past year or yet other means that Congress and the new administration may devise.
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