Shreveport Political Science Professor Helps Explain a Possible Change in Louisiana College Accreditations

Shreveport political science professor helps explain a possible change in Louisiana college accreditations

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)- Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry recently signed an executive order creating a task force to create a new public college accreditor. LSUS Professor Jeffrey Sadow explains what an accreditor does, "It sets up rules for periodic vetting of institutions. They look at all sorts of things, not just on the academic side, to see if it is a legitimate educational program, but also things like the finances of an institution, so…

SADOW: Switch to New Accreditor Should Start Now

You don’t need a task force: Republican Gov. Jeff Landry should have simply ordered each university system in Louisiana to prepare for exiting the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges instead of studying the idea of transferring accreditation to the new, depoliticized incipient higher education accreditor the Commission on Public Higher Education, […] The post SADOW: Switch to New Accreditor Should Start Now appear…