Education officials may soon bar the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), an agency that overwhelmingly accredits for-profit colleges, from serving as the gatekeeper between colleges and billions of dollars in federal financial aid.
Never idle, she can often be found crawling the globe speaking, advising and working hands-on with people she accredits for bringing meaning to her life.
Most recently, when the independent television channel Dozhd TV — where Sobchak has a popular interview show — tried to accredit her for the massive St . PetersburgEconomic Forum, in June, she was the only member of the Dozhd crew who was turned down.
Mark Walhimer, a consultant on museum planning who also helps accredit institutions for the American Alliance of Museums, said entrepreneurs who had created their own fortunes sometimes had trouble making the mental leap involved in giving their collections to the public.
The National Abortion Federation, an association of 400 abortion providers nationwide, evaluated his operation and wouldn't accredit him for membership because of his grossly substandard clinic.
Third, every college in the U.S. must be accredited by an accrediting association; for us, it's Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
The accrediting body for postgraduate medical education, for example, recently said it would no longer grant credit to doctors for attending medical meetings that feature industry employees presenting product research.
For example, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting authority for medical schools in the United States, now mandates that all schools have a program for student wellness in place that includes "an effective system of personal counseling for its students".
"If you want to go to the expensive place in town, you pay more," said Margaret O'Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a nonprofit accrediting group for health plans.
