One of President Donald Trump’s last decrees aims to exploit what he called his “secret weapon” to suppress Dei’s initiatives in colleges and universities.
Of the seven decrees related to the education that Trump signed on Wednesday, we aimed to modify the college accreditation process. Accreditors are independent agencies that examine colleges every few years to determine if they meet the standards necessary to continue to receive federal aid, including the performance and diversity of students on campuses.
If a college meets the standards of the accreditor, it can participate in billions of dollars in student loans and federal subsidies for low -income students that the Ministry of Education disburses each year.
Trump’s decree said that the accreditors have enabled schools to continue to receive federal funding according to their DEI standards and have “abused their enormous authority” by accrediting schools that engage in “ideological overtaking”.
“The higher education accreditation system in America is broken,” said education secretary Linda McMahon in a statement, adding that accreditors are pushing schools “in ideological directions when they should focus on basic subjects”.
“The result is more bureaucracy, less innovation, administrative complexes of tentacular and heavy surveillance by inexplicable accreditors rather than leaders of education and members of the board of directors duly appointed,” said McMahon.
The ordinance orders McMahon to monitor and potentially terminate the accreditors who, according to her, violating the law of civil rights by granting colleges accreditation with the initiatives of Dei. He also orders McMahon, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Services, to investigate the Dei in medical schools which receive federal funding.
Trump has already called the college accreditation of his “secret weapon” to revise higher education in his vision. In a 2023 campaign video, Trump said that he would “fire the left -wing radical accreditors who allowed our colleges to dominate themselves by Marxist and crazy maniacs”.
“We will then accept the requests of new accreditors who will once again impose real standards on colleges and once and for all,” he said.
We do not know how McMahon goes ahead with the implementation of the decree. It was accompanied by six other orders related to education, one of which is to increase the number of learning in the United States, and another aimed at educating students on artificial intelligence.
This decision comes in the midst of Trump’s wider plans to reshape the American education system. He has launched dozens of surveys on kindergarten educational establishments in the 12th year and higher education on practices that do not align with the beliefs of the administration, such as diversity policies. More broadly, Trump has signed an executive decree requesting the elimination of the entire Ministry of Education.
Some defenders criticized Trump’s movements to reshape accreditation. Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said in a statement that Trump “arms the accreditation process to obtain the lever effect he is looking for”.
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