Dive Brief:

• An accreditation panel should keep its power to review two-year colleges but should correct some of its own flaws, according to a U.S. Department of Education report.
• One of the flaws the report cites: The panel does not get many educators and other professionals to support its policies and decisions.
• The report's findings are being relayed to an advisory panel, which will then make a recommendation to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Dive Insight:

The accreditation panel is particularly in the spotlight because of its decision to revoke accreditation for the City College of San Francisco next year. Many of the letters the Department of Education received regarding the panel denounced its decision to revoke that accreditation. Critics had hoped the panel's power to accredit colleges would be suspended.