The Chronicle of Higher Education

Yes, We Need Accountability. But We Also Need Institutional Diversity.

January 25, 2019

Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, writes: Among many proposals for accreditation reform put forward by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, her call for accreditors to "honor individual campus missions" and avoid "one size fits all" methods has some appeal for colleges that focus on specific populations. While mission considerations have always been part of accreditation, across the past decade the rise of data-driven assessment and public-data aggregators like the College Scorecard has placed increasingly onerous burdens on institutions whose metrics often look different from the mainstream, including many women’s colleges, historically black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions.

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