The left has thoroughly infiltrated American education, using it to shape the thinking of students — to accept collectivistic beliefs and reject our traditional values. That infiltration naturally includes all institutions adjacent to our schools and colleges, including accreditation agencies.

In today’s Martin Center article, Anne Hendershott explains how accreditation helps to promote leftist ideology.

For years, universities have embraced accreditation standards that echo their own ideological commitments, especially around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). These standards haven’t felt like external requirements so much as mutual reinforcement — accreditors writing expectations that colleges already agree with and colleges pointing back to those expectations whenever they want to justify a decision. Because of this, it is no surprise that universities are now pushing back........

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