Responding to ACTA’s new report on the weakness of accreditation, Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education opines in The Chronicle that it is “just a hodgepodge of half-baked ideas and anecdotes.”
I’m eagerly awaiting a rebuttal paper from ACE in which it proves that accreditation is actually working to ensure that American students get the best education possible, that learning is steadily increasing, and that without the vision provided by accrediting associations, our colleges and universities would be blindly stumbling around, issuing diplomas to students who can scarcely read them.