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Is College Accreditation Constitutional? - Commentary

Shannen W. Coffin, a former senior Justice Department and White House lawyer, and George Leef, director of research for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, wrote:  The University of North Carolina’s board of governors recently decided to create a School of Civic Life and Leadership, dedicated to principles of free speech in higher education. The resulting controversy has exposed an underappreciated aspect of the higher-education system: unchecked power wielded by a bureaucracy of private accreditors.
 
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