An Inside Higher Ed article titled, "Upping the Pressure on Accreditors," appeared online yesterday, 20 October 2015.

From the story: The Obama administration is planning new executive action on higher education accreditation in the coming weeks, as part of a push to make accreditors focus more heavily on student outcomes when judging colleges and universities, officials said Monday…

“Accreditors need to do more and need to focus on outcomes,” Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell told reporters Monday. He said the department is still hammering out the details of its plans for accreditation, but he added that “there will be three parts: executive action, potential regulatory reform and legislation we feel is needed.”

For those of you following my recent Leiter Reports posts on accreditation and on the issues of outcome assessment, the comments on those posts will remain open for the rest of the week.