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Fixing FASFA: Black Students and HBCUs Will Lose the Most

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the largest champion of the Black college community and the only national organization to provide both financial and professional development support to students attending publicly supported HBCUs, TMCF notes that the delays and lack of clarity surrounding Better FASFA are presenting dire consequences for its students and institutions.

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Navigating Institutional Accreditation: How to Get it and Keep it: Helping colleges and universities navigate the accreditation process successfully

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this case, the Department serves as a bank and delegates its authority to accreditors to confirm if institutions meet the quality, organization, and financial standards to receive federal financial aid. Accreditation is not mandatory – higher ed institutions need not be accredited.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Starting in 2018, for instance, several faculty members said, the faculty helped the college avoid budget-related program cuts via an academic and administrative program review. Nonunionized employees also now have a mandatory high-deductible consumer-driven health plan instead of a preferred provider organization plan option.

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A Guide to the Accreditation Process with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA)

Creatrix Campus

The Ministry of Education (MOE) advises universities to apply for institutional and program accreditation through the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA), an independent organization that answers directly to the Council of Higher Education.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

I thought that was the most arrogant thing I had ever heard until I got there and realized there is not a single other person in the organization that looks through that lens. And their immediate reaction was, ‘You're going to cut all of our programs just like you did at Henderson.’ The students are looking out.