Inside Higher Ed: Into the Lamb’s Den
Relations between the U.S. Education Department and college leaders have grown increasingly strained in recent weeks. Accreditors and higher ed association types have warily watched the department’s aggressive efforts to carry out the recommendations of its Commission on the Future of Higher Education through possible changes in the rules governing accreditation. And the Bush administration’s proposal last week to increase the maximum Pell Grant by killing several other student aid programs has had many academic leaders and college groups spewing venom in private and challenging the administration in public, drawing sometimes testy responses from department officials and, notably, from Charles Miller, who led the Spellings Commission and seems to relish the “bad cop” role.
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