Accreditation

Florida’s public universities and colleges will have to try to find new accreditors, course materials must be posted online and stay up for five years, and tenured faculty members will have to undergo periodic reviews. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the provisions into law Tuesday.

With Gov. Ron DeSantis expected to sign a bill that would lead to periodic changes in accrediting agencies, members of the state university system’s Board of Governors are criticizing the current accreditor of Florida colleges and universities.

Republicans say they’re just trying to give colleges and universities more options when it comes to finding an accrediting agency; but others see something far more insidious: an effort to break the influence of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which has repeatedly snubbed efforts by state politicians to influence the outcomes of major decisions.

Florida State University’s medical school has received a warning from the organization responsible for accrediting medical schools across the United…

Florida will soon have a new figure in Washington D.C.’s statuary hall. Education advocate and Civil Rights Pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune will have a place…