WASHINGTON– The executive order of the accreditation of Donald Trump is another attempt to dictate what is taught, taught, said and done by students and trainers. Threats to remove accreditors from their roles are transparent attempts to consolid more power in the hands of the Trump management in order to suppress teaching and research. These attacks aim to eliminate educational decisions from educators and to change university formation into an authoritarian political agenda.
The accreditation plays a key role to ensure that the students receive high -quality university education. However, today's executive regulations threaten to end this existing system and to bring even more power to design university formation in the hands of party politicians.
The accreditation accepted its current form in response to widespread fraud by diplommühühta after the 1944 GI account. With the law on the national defense education of 1958, the accreditation of the formal mechanism for recognition as to which institutions should be considered in order to obtain the financing of university formation, a mechanism that is maintained in the University Act. Acceleration has recently proven an essential instrument to ensure that academic institutions across the country draw attention to improving educational results.
Accreditation agencies have protected both students and the government to waste money at fraudal institutions – such as Trump University – who deal with fraud and grip. Trump's executive order makes both students and the government more susceptible to such a fraud.
Academic agencies were also important mechanisms to ensure that academic institutions are accessible and integrative and offer all students high -quality education. However, this executive ordinance uses the cruel and absurd weapons of the government of anti -discrimination and civil rights law to prevent accreditation authorities from taking the institutions fundamental steps to ensure that they are accessible to all students.
Due to the threat of existing agencies and easier to facilitate new agencies, the executive's orders force the accrediters to either transform themselves through recognition by replacing the political dictations and the ideological flap of the administration or replacing new fly-by-night agencies that are ready to get the party boundary. This is exactly the type of party political interference against which academic accreditation is supposed to protect.
The Trump administration's claim that the Executive Ordinance will promote “the academic freedom, intellectual examination and learning of the student” is obviously wrong. When politically motivated accrediters go to war with the universities, they usually try to close the campus and rob the students to grow and flourish.
The state control of the accreditation will create a patchwork of rules and regulations that give confusion and inefficiencies and at the same time create conditions in which bad actors are more encouraged for fraud students and their families.
Aaup president Todd Wolfson Says: “Trump's goal is to manipulate accrediters to force universities and universities to create their commandments and punish them when they resist. He devotes the accreditation process to gain the leverage that he is looking for. This command is another test of the Trump government to control American university. Increase agenda.
Eighth President Randi Weingarten According to: “The accreditation should be based on the quality of a college or university academic standards and support for students, not whether a politician of a school or a professor ideology agrees. This is part of what has made us the envy of the world.
“President Trump's new executive medal seems to hurt this. He seems to say that he can determine what our universities can teach and what the students can learn. This is a fundamental attack on free expression and free company. It is a war against knowledge and we will combat it.”
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