ACICS no longer seeking recognition from key oversight group
The news comes after the Council for Higher Education Accreditation found the national accreditor out of compliance with nine of its standards for recognition.
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Jan. 17, 2020
Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at New America, a left-leaning think tank said that, after the department pulled ACICS' recognition in 2016, it was largely CHEA's recognition that saved it from collapsing.
DeVos and Diane Auer Jones, the department's principal deputy under secretary, have long given ACICS a pass, McCann said. The department determined in 2018 that ACICS met 19 of 21 federal standards, according to Auer Jones, who was key in getting ACICS' recognition reinstated. But an earlier review by department career staff determined ACICS was out of step with those rules.