On Aug. 19, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced that it no longer recognizes the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as an accrediting agency. This ...

Months after the U.S. Department of Education terminated the accreditor’s tie to federal aid, here’s what’s happening to the 269 schools with ACICS accreditation. The Accrediting Council for ...

The Education Department stripped ACICS, a school accreditor, of its federal status. The agency was scrutinized over signing off on major for-profits, like ITT Tech and Corinthian. DeVos reinstated ...

The Department of Education announced that it was denying the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools' appeal to overturn the department's September decision to cease recognition of ...

Eighty-five of the colleges that ACICS oversees would have likely lost access to federal student aid if Secretary DeVos had not reinstated the problematic accreditor. According to a new data review,* ...

The future of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools will be at stake later this month when a federal accreditation panel reviews the agency's performance. Consumer advocacy ...

ACICS is the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools and it’s an accreditor of colleges – one of the organizations that is supposed to supervise, scrutinize and certify that a college ...

BIDEN ADMIN DECISION ON CONTROVERSIAL COLLEGE ACCREDITOR DRAGS ON: The Biden administration has been deliberating for nearly 10 months over a final decision on the fate of a controversial accreditor ...

Just weeks after ITT Tech's demise, one of the largest school closures in US history, The Department of Education (ED) voted to remove recognition from the for-profit school's accreditor, the ...

The door was locked. The man had knocked, but no one in the South Dakota business park answered. The visitor was looking for Reagan National University, accredited as a small, for-profit college ...