New Federal Regulations Ready for Your Comments – Accreditation-Related Regulations – WCET Frontiers
This is the second of two posts on the new U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register earlier this week. The first post focused on state authorization and student notification issues. This post focuses on several issues under the purview of accreditation. Do read down through the list of regulations as some of the issues (e.g., student identity verification) might not have come to mind as being addressed in rules for accrediting agencies.
The proposed language came out of the consensus language from the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee meetings that we covered extensively earlier this year. Please note that the Department will accept public comments on this set of proposed regulations that are submitted by July 12, 2019. So, time is short.
In this post, we focus on several regulations that have to do with the recognition of accrediting agencies, standards that accrediting agencies are to use in reviewing institutions, and regulatory expectations of institutions. We also address the process for institutional personnel to submit public comments.
Please note that for the purposes of this post, we are going to refer you to pages numbers in the proposed regulation draft document rather than the Federal Register so that we will be better able to direct you to specific language because the print is bigger, there is only one column of language, and you can use adobe tools to make notes in the margin.