BOCA RATON, Fla. – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday the establishment of a new commission tasked with creating a new accreditation model for public higher education institutions.
The Commission for Public Higher Education is a consortium of six public university systems from different states tasked with establishing “rigorous, transparent and adoptable outcomes-based accreditation standards and practices,” DeSantis said.
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According to a release, the CPHE’s mission is to advance the quality and improvement of higher education by accrediting and pre-accrediting state public colleges and universities that are incorporated, chartered, licensed or authorized in the United States.
“It’ll upend monopoly of the woke accreditation cartels, and it will provide institutions with an alternative that focuses on student achievement rather than the ideological fads that have so permeated those accrediting bodies over the years,” DeSantis said.
The university systems in the commission include:
- State University System of Florida
- University System of Georgia
- The University of North Carolina System
- University of South Carolina
- The University of Tennessee System
- The Texas A&M University System