Rethinking Academic Regulation
Over prescriptive rules cost more, suppress creativity and innovation
Prescriptive Rules
The higher education landscape in the United States is heavily regulated by a complex web of rules and regulations issued by various entities, including institutional and programmatic accreditors, Congress, state legislatures, and federal, state, and local bureaucracies. These rules can be categorized into two main types: protective ru…
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