Policy Forum 

# College Accreditation in the Crosshairs 

Date and Time 

April 16, 2014 10 AM - 1 PM EDT 

Location 

Hayek Auditorium 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Judith Eaton**, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation; **Andrew Kelly**, Director, Center on Higher Education Reform, American Enterprise Institute; **Neal McCluskey**, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; **Vance Fried**, Riata Professor of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; **Sally Johnstone**, Vice President for Academic Advancement, Western Governors University; and **Jeff Martineau**, Managing Partner, Higher Education Partners; moderated by **Doug Lederman**, Editor, *Inside Higher Ed* and **Eric Kelderman**, Staff Reporter, *Chronicle of Higher Education*. 

| 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. | **Panel I: Are the Feds a Threat to Accreditors and Colleges?** [Download a video of the event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2014/cc-04-16-14-01.mp4) [Download a podcast of the event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2014/cca-04-16-14-01.mp3) **Judith Eaton** President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation **Andrew Kelly**, Director, Center on Higher Education Reform, American Enterprise Institute [**Neal McCluskey**](https://www.cato.org/people/neal-mccluskey), Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute **Moderator: Doug Lederman**, Editor, *Inside Higher Ed* |
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| 11:35 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | **Panel II: Quality Control and Nontraditional Higher Ed** [Download a video of the event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2014/cc-04-16-14-02-fix.mp4) [Download a podcast of the event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2014/cca-04-16-14-02.mp3) [**Vance Fried**](https://www.cato.org/people/vance-fried), Riata Professor of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute **Sally Johnstone**, Vice President for Academic Advancement, Western Governors University **Jeff Martineau**, Managing Partner, Higher Education Partners **Moderator: Eric Kelderman**, Staff Reporter, *Chronicle of Higher Education* |

American higher education is being swept by two potentially irresistible waves of change. The first is intense scrutiny of academia’s costs and benefits, driven by soaring prices, student debt, and the ensuing public anger. The second is the emergence of postsecondary models that threaten to replace traditional colleges and universities on a major scale. In this special forum, we’ll look at the threats to accreditors — and through them, schools — stemming from federal reactions to public unhappiness, and at ways to foster quality in the many postsecondary options coming our way.

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