Trump signs executive order targeting college accreditation process

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Source: The Hill

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to shake up the college accreditation process, a topic that rarely gets political sunlight but is immensely important to universities.

College accreditation is the process universities must go through to receive federal financial aid, a tool Trump called his “secret weapon” on education on the campaign trail.

“University accreditation is currently a process controlled by a number of third-party organizations that’s by statute, by law, many of those third-party accreditors have relied on sort of woke ideology to accredit universities, instead of accrediting based on merit and performance,” said Will Scharf, White House staff secretary.

Although the text of the executive order is not yet out, a report from The Wall Street Journal said the president aims to use the process to remove what he sees as “ideological overreach” and to increase “intellectual diversity” on campus.

The order will also allow colleges to switch accreditors easily and encourage more competition in the accreditor space, according to the outlet.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5263841-trump-executive-order-college-accreditation-mcmahon/

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[Balatro]

1. Not sure how this will help education...

breaking it seems to be the point....

[Lovie777]

2. Please stop the nightmare..............

[DSandra]

13. Winning is everything...

Nothing else matters, but dropping the ball by Kamala following outdated political consultants less than two months before Election Day or Biden and the party entertaining delusions that Biden could still win reelection in a do or die election and skipping the regular primary process was fatally foolish. The party didn’t truly prepare for a do or die political war. Now everyone has to pay the price for those mistakes.

[Nictuku]

3. Trump University comes to mind

If he could select different third-party accreditation (obviously a corrupt one), perhaps he would not have had his Trump University accused (and I think convicted) of fraud. This is more retribution. imho

[plcdude]

4. I think

we need to find out the people who are writing these E O’s. Idiot could never come up with these ideas. We need to track his sources and do some research on them they have to have skeletons

[orangecrush]

9. THIS

[PortTack]

5. Another worthless EO by the orange buffoon....Harvard and other elite universities and now the big 10 have

Told him to fuck off…what doesn’t he get??

[Pas-de-Calais]

6. WOKE THIS!

You orange tinged small handed felonious russian agent

[cab67]

7. Some of Trump's policies

....and those enacted by Republican state legislatures would force public universities to lose accreditation.

Iowa is trying to pass a law forbidding accrediting agencies from dropping accreditation if universities are following state law. The accrediting agencies, of course, will tell the legislators to pound sand.

[moniss]

8. A new business venture for

Edolph.

[lonely bird]

10. Tell him no

Period.

[travelingthrulife]

11. Anything these monsters put in front of his face he signs as an executive order.

What does he know about the accreditation process?

[travelingthrulife]

12. Another evangelical christian project. They want their lousy colleges to be fully accredited.

[sakabatou]

14. This is a corrupt way to make diploma mills look/act real