The Chronicle of Higher Education
Education Department Applied Pressure to Save Troubled For-Profit Colleges, Accreditor Says
July 29, 2020
In recently released documents, an accreditor argues that leaders of a for-profit-college company and the U.S. Education Department could have acted sooner to protect students from taking out loans at unaccredited colleges. Instead, senior political appointees in the Education Department waited months to take action, according to the documents, and then pressured the accrediting commission to retroactively accredit the colleges.