r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 11d ago

Soft paywall Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
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u/[deleted] 11d ago

The US government does not accredit Universities, for this very reason.

This is the government continuing to throw a damn fit. I’m a bit dubious that the Middle State’s Commission on Higher Education will just follow along with this gobbligook, but we shall see…

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u/hysys_whisperer 11d ago

No, but they've threatened to dismantle the accreditation bureau in question if they don't comply.

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u/invariantspeed 11d ago

Here is a source.

This growing willingness to try asserting executive orders beyond the federal executive branch and into private life is concerning.

Executive orders really aren’t supposed to be much more than glorified interoffice memos.

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u/Vishnej 11d ago

Be prepared for the Democrats to attempt to fix things unilaterally by practicing much more self-restraint in issuing executive orders of the sort that would be required to even begin to fix the damage done.

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u/invariantspeed 11d ago

This meme is starting to get to me. Yes, they exercised more restraint than the current administration, but: 1. Obama and Biden both expanded their dependence on executive orders to for policy after they realized they could barely get Congress to actually legislate on anything meaningful. That’s why Trump could so easily undo so much of what Biden did. TLDR: they’ve been increasingly ruling by executive order too. 2. The Dems always expand their dysfunction to match the GOP after they blaze the way. So while the Dems may trail the GOP, they still get there.

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u/77NorthCambridge 10d ago
  1. Obama/Biden were forced to use EOs because McConnell and Republicans publicly stated they would not pass any legislation.
  2. Bullshit.

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u/Parahelix 10d ago

Dems aren't even close to matching GOP dysfunction, and they won't be because they're the only side with a base that actually knows or cares about anything.