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Department draft flips presumption on institutions switching accreditors; panel debates safeguards
Summary
Draft regulations propose treating a request to change accreditors as presumptively allowable unless the secretary finds specific causes to block it. Committee members pressed for clearer timelines, notifications and guardrails to prevent institutions from evading oversight.
The negotiated-rulemaking session of the accreditor-recognition committee on May 6 reviewed a draft change that would shift the default on when an institution may change accrediting agencies. Jeff (Department staff) told the panel the draft is intended to convert a ‘mother may I’ process into a rebuttable presumption: an institution that notifies the Department of a planned change would generally be permitted to move unless the secretary determines the change was sought to evade enforcement or for other specified reasons.
Committee members raised procedural and substantive concerns.…
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