Accrediting Institutions of Higher Education

This can't be good news.

There is an apparent disconnect between accreditation of institutions of higher education and their actual ability to teach our young men and women.

An excerpt:

Those requirements do prevent diploma mills (i.e., educationally fraudulent schools that don’t teach, but merely sell bogus degrees) from earning genuine accreditation. (There are also phony accreditation groups.)  That’s important because government student aid money can only go to schools that have been accredited by a recognized accrediting agency.  By preventing students from spending their government aid at diploma mills, we deter them from squandering money on unquestionably fraudulent institutions.

Unfortunately, our accrediting system does not prevent “real” colleges and universities from operating with such low standards that many students graduate with pathetically poor skills in “the three Rs.”  It is not uncommon for weak and disengaged students to enroll in an accredited college and manage to accumulate enough credits to graduate, but learn little in the way of valuable skills and knowledge.

Ahhhhh—I have no smart solutions to this.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff