Washington, D.C. — This week, an independent federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Education—the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)—will ...

ACICS is the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools and it’s an accreditor of colleges – one of the organizations that is supposed to supervise, scrutinize and certify that a college ...

A chorus of powerful critics wants to shut down the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a national accreditor, for allegedly being too lax with Corinthian Colleges and other ...

Advisory group's recommendation last week puts troubled accreditor's federal recognition in jeopardy for a second time -- a possible death knell. An advisory group to the U.S. Department of Education ...

A troubled college accrediting agency that was disempowered by the Obama administration and given a lifeline by the Trump administration is now under pressure from career Education Department (ED) ...

On December 12, 2016, US Secretary of Education John King issued his final – and expected – decision denying the appeal filed by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools ("ACICS") ...

Secretary Betsy DeVos announced earlier today that the US Department of Education has retroactively reinstated the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools ...

A transformational event has been unfolding behind the scenes of academia over the past year. It is an event that has caused — and will likely continue to produce — seismic ripples throughout the ...

BIDEN ADMIN DECISION ON CONTROVERSIAL COLLEGE ACCREDITOR DRAGS ON: The Biden administration has been deliberating for nearly 10 months over a final decision on the fate of a controversial accreditor ...