02-19-2022, 04:41 PM
Institutional Accreditation as a replacement for Regional Accreditation is pretty much a brand new thing. I'm not sure that anyone really knows how this will develop over the next decade. One way of thinking about it is that higher education accreditation has become more of a competitive market. Some other accreditor might be very happy to have a new university system in it's list of customers. It's more money in their pockets and a chance to zing one of their competitors. It's not like the University of Florida system is some smarmy little degree mill that is "accreditor hopping" in an attempt to appear legitimate. I don't think they'd have any trouble in finding a new accreditor. I'll bet that if the Florida legislature passes that bill then it will happen without any real trouble.