The future of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools will be at stake later this month when a federal accreditation panel reviews the agency's performance. Consumer advocacy groups, state attorneys general and Democrats in Congress are putting intense pressure on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity -- and ultimately on the Education Department, which the panel advises -- to shut down ACICS.
But much more than the accreditor's fate is in play in this month's review by the panel known as NACIQI.
The credibility of the entire federal system of higher education quality assurance will be under intense scrutiny as well, with significant implications for other accreditors and for the Obama administration, many experts on higher education believe.
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