Accreditors Pushing Ideology, Not Competence
In our education system, we have institutional accreditors (evaluating schools as a whole) and programmatic accreditors (evaluating specific occupational training programs). How well they do those jobs is often questionable, but what is beyond question is that many of these groups have been taken over by progressives who never miss an opportunity to advance their beliefs. The Trump administration has tried to stop this.
In today’s Martin Center article, Isabella Romboldi focuses on the trouble with programmatic accreditors, which have power due to state licensing laws.
On May 13, 2026 Do No Harm, a healthcare education advocacy group, sent an open letter to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the national accrediting agency for social work education programs,........
