From NOLA.com: Louisiana will join other Southern states that are developing a new accrediting agency for public colleges and universities, Gov. Jeff Landry said..., echoing a conservative complaint that existing accreditors have imposed liberal values on the institutions they evaluate... In April, President Donald Trump said some accreditors “abused their enormous authority” by requiring schools to meet standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. Last month, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said the public university systems in Florida and five other Southern states — Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — will create a new accreditor to compete with the “accreditation cartel.” ...Landry signed an executive order creating a task force to explore adopting that new accreditor, which he said will offer “an alternative to the out-of-touch accreditation system.”
“This task force will ensure Louisiana’s public universities move away from DEI-driven mandates and toward a system rooted in merit-based achievement,” he said in a statement...
Full story at https://www.nola.com/news/education/jeff-landry-university-accreditor-dei/article_6650fbae-2b6a-4ed8-9f60-bb268a8e450f.html.
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