On April 22, 2016, Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), known before as DPC, Democratic Policy Committee wrote a letter to DOE Secretary to take more firm measures to various accrediting agencies.  We all may know the infamous case on the Corinthian College, a for-profit education institution.  When it collapsed, it was an accredited higher education institution in the US.  One may ask the question how could this thing happen?  An accredited institution went bankrupt without any prior warning from the accrediting agencies that supposedly to protect the interests of the American society?  The Association has written an article on July 03, 2015 to raise the issue.  Though a bit late, this is one of the reasons that motivates the Senate Democrats to write the letter to the DOE Secretary. We, at the Association are glad that finally the US lawmakers do something and other institution confirmed the Association’s observation on May 5th, 2016.  There are a couple things that one can learn from this case:

1. All involved parties are reactive instead of proactive.
2. Colleges’ accreditors may not have done their job optimally.
3. No consequences in place for a sub-par quality work.  Therefore, there should be an accreditor agency or agencies to conduct compliance tests on all current accrediting agencies’ work.
4. Accreditation policies, and processes and (using Mr. Gray’s words, the accrediting agencies, have they own methods and criteria) may have been out-dated and they need to be reevaluated, rewritten and to be streamlined with the American society’s concerns.