Gov. Ron DeSantis has done more than any other governor to take on the higher education establishment that has been captured by the Left. The Left isn’t happy about the progress DeSantis has made, so the Biden administration has empowered unelected bureaucrats to undo what DeSantis has accomplished.
None of the leaders of any of these agencies was elected by anybody. They are completely unaccountable. And, like the rest of academia, they have become wholly captured by far-left ideologues. As the Texas Public Policy Foundation has noted, accreditors rarely take action against existing colleges for failures in academic programming or student outcomes. What the accreditation agencies are very good at is not approving accreditation for new higher education institutions and shutting down experiments in higher education that can bring down costs for students.
DeSantis then fought back, passing a new law requiring all Florida universities to change their accreditors whenever their accreditation is up for renewal. This would render SACSCOC powerless over FSU. But then Biden responded with new regulations mandating that all universities must stay with their current accreditor.