Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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.

The Florida Senate is attempting to water down a bill that would have required the state’s public universities to get a new accreditor, effectively forcing them out from under the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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.

It’s the second time in less than five years the school is facing a sanction. This time, the problems stem from the hazing death of a drum major and lax…

Florida A&M University has once again found itself in an uncomfortably familiar spot. The school has been hit with a probation sanction by its accrediting…

Edison State College has been placed on probation for a year by its accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on…