What is the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and why is its accreditation process so important?
Accreditation is vitally important for colleges and universities in this country because it makes you eligible for student and federal financial aid. It makes us eligible for grants and contracts that support our research activities as well as for all sorts of other programs that are dependent on having imprimatur – the status of being an accredited institution. It also means that students who graduate from Rutgers have a diploma that means something. There is an ongoing dialogue in Washington, D.C., as well as in Trenton about accountability in higher education. How does the Middle States process fit into that discussion? For a number of years there has been a conversation about how you assess higher education and its value to students. In other words, what does a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree from any college or university mean? What have students learned; what have they accomplished? When they go out into the work world, what kinds of skills do they possess? This has led
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