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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Tactics spur accreditation debate - JOSHUA BENTON, The Dallas Morning News
For a newborn college, the road to respectability runs through accreditation. It can take a school up to a decade to earn the nation's official mark of quality. But last year some Dallas investors, keen to quickly launch a profitable revolution in higher education, found a shortcut to accreditation. They bought it. Whether that was a legitimate purchase is hotly debated. But there's no question that the new school embodies the tensions between traditional academic values and a new movement toward no-frills, assembly-line for-profit education that claims it can be both cheaper and better.
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