TRACS-accredited University Loses State Financial Aid

From Inside Higher Ed. Wisconsin has pulled state financial aid from Northland International University because it is not regionally accredited. Inside Higher Ed approaches the situation as discrimination:

If Wisconsin officials ask around, they're likely to find that their policy is out of step with the prevailing winds nationally. Not only have the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and most leading higher education associations endorsed the idea that colleges should not base their determinations on transfer of credit solely on accreditation status, but the accreditation council has told state leaders for several years (as in a letter sent this spring) that they should provide equitable treatment to any accreditor recognized by either the Education Department or by CHEA itself.​

I suppose Wisconsin hasn't followed what happened in Texas with DETC (which wasn't about financial aid, but rather legitimacy of national versus regional accreditation).

Mark

 

Probably not.