Higher-education leaders Friday backed a plan to form a new accrediting agency that Florida will help fund and oversee with ...

The board overseeing Florida's public universities is set to vote Friday afternoon on whether to create a new accreditor.

A major shift could be coming to the way public universities are held accountable. Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced the ...

Education Department approves one Florida college’s application to change accreditors. A new state law—and Ron DeSantis—dictate that Florida’s 39 other public colleges do the same. The U.S. Department ...

Florida will join five other Southern states to form the new accreditation program for their public universities.

The change, in part, broadened the geographic areas that accreditation agencies can serve. “In this period of 10 years (or) whenever their accreditation is up, they would have to go to a ...

After the statute became law on July 1, 2022, the Education Department posted an online statement weeks later warning against “accreditation-shopping” and declaring that “postsecondary accreditation ...

Florida is working with university leaders from five other Southern states to form a new higher-education accrediting body, Gov. Ron DeSantis and officials from the other states announced Thursday.

The big story: Florida higher education has undergone some dramatic changes in the past couple of years, under the efforts of Gov. Ron DeSantis. Through a combination of new laws, rules, lawsuits ...

The big story: Florida Republican lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis have pushed for a couple of years to change the way the state’s universities are accredited. Their concerns center on actions by ...

Contending that higher-education accreditation agencies wield “near limitless power” over colleges and universities, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a lawsuit alleging federal ...