LA Times reports Feds fault ACCJC

The LA Times reports that the Feds have declared that the ACCJC must improve their processes, but they will give them time to improve.  It states:

A panel that moved to revoke accreditation from City College of San Francisco should continue to have authority to review two-year colleges -- even as it works to correct its own deficiencies, according to a U.S. Department of Education report.

The report recommends that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges be given a year to correct those issues. It doesn’t seek to pull recognition of the agency, though many critics had hoped it would.
Among key conclusions was that the panel has failed to get many educators and other professionals to support its policies and decisions, which is one of the standards it must meet.
The report said the department had received more than 100 third-party written comments connected to the commission’s application to renew its authority. Many of them denounced the panel’s decision to revoke City College's accreditation next year, it said.
The commission submitted letters on its own behalf, but “these letters do not demonstrate broad acceptance of its standards, policies, procedures and accrediting decisions as they are letters of gratitude not letters of support,” the report said.
“In addition,” the report said, “four faculty senates at California institutions, three California-wide faculty organizations, and one national faculty organization provided written comments that indicated their disagreement with the policies and actions of the agency and that call into question the wide acceptance of the agency’s … decisions to grant or deny accreditation by educators.”

So, reports of the demise of the ACCJC are greatly exaggerated.