Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, has introduced a bill to allow states to create their own college accreditation bodies. Currently, six nongovernmental accreditors vet schools in a process that is in some ways too lax but, in others, too harsh. “Our higher education system should not be held captive to 100-year-old institutions that were never intended to be regulatory gatekeepers in the first place,” Lee wrote.
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