A new vision for higher education accreditation https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/2016/10/06/145152/a-quality-alternative-a-new-vision-for-higher-education-accreditation/
So, a gradual federal takeover of the current system, continuing a pernicious bipartisan trend ignited by the Spellings commission.
That's "progress", I guess. Make higher education dependent on federal student aid, then insist that dependence gives the federal government both the right and the means to shape higher education.
That's the process. Il Ducebag would have gotten one thing right if he'd wasted Gramsci. Ya know, that's a terrible thing I said. Ya know, I don't care. ;-)