College Accreditors to Review Schools With Low Graduation Rates – WSJ

• College Accreditors to Review Schools With Low Graduation Rates – WSJ

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  Marybeth Gasman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center for Minority-   Serving Institutions expressed alarm that the new 25% figure could be harmful to HBCUs.Ms. Brittingham said most of the schools likely to be affected are community colleges,

• • June, a federal panel voted to shut down the largest accrediting agency of private-sector colleges and universities. The decision is being appealed but it could threaten access to nearly $5 billion in federal financial aid for more than 800,000 students
  • A 2008 law prohibits the government from demanding accreditors hold schools to specific student-achievement standards.
  • The group said they would also pay increased attention to loan default and loan repayment rates.
  • Schools need the seal of approval to accept federal student loans.
  • Barbara Brittingham, chairwoman of the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions, which oversees the quality of more than 2,800 institutions across the country
  • A Wall Street Journal investigation last year determined that the U.S. government sent $16 billion in aid to students at four-year colleges that graduated less than one-third of their students within six years.
  • they would begin taking a harder look at any school that has a four-year graduation rate below 25%.

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