The U.S. Department of Education awarded $14.5 million to 15 projects aimed at reshaping how colleges and universities prove their quality, which could be a down payment on what could become the most significant structural change to higher education oversight in decades.
The grants, available through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, respond to an April 2025 executive order that called for accreditation reform. But the scope of what’s being funded goes well beyond incremental improvement.
This single grant round is seeding 10 new accrediting agencies, each designed to operate differently than the regional accreditors that have dominated American higher education since the mid-20th century.
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