Category: Alternative providers

New Pathways for Unaccredited Entities and Non-Institutional Education Providers

Jay Vaughan, Mike Goldstein and Robin Dasher-Alston

Accreditors have been seen as obstacles to innovation in higher education. In April we issued a Cooley Alert on new WASC guidelines for disaggregating institutional services. Now WASC and DEAC have issued separate policies that appear intended to make it easier for new institutions to come into existence and for the validation of courses provided by unaccredited entities.