Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Accreditation and Accountability: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

For the past decade, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has focused on a small but vital set of higher education accreditation issues. Accreditation and Accountability: Looking Back and Looking Ahead is an electronic compilation of ideas, recommendations and suggestions that CHEA has offered for these issues:


Public Accountability
Student Achievement
Information to the Public
Relationship with Federal and State Government
Distance Education
International Accreditation and Quality Assurance
Degree Mills and Accreditation Mills
Transfer of Credit
Financing Accreditation and Conflict of Interest


This online publication provides summaries of key observations and suggestions for each issue, followed by links to the CHEA documents cited. It is a compendium of in-depth information on issues at the heart of accreditation.


Accreditation and Accountability is an important new resource designed both to inform readers and stimulate future discussions of the challenges and opportunities facing higher education accreditation.


A national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation, CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations. For more information, visit CHEA's Website at www.chea.org

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Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Accreditation and Accountability: Looking Back and Looking Ahead