Mind blown. Doing some research on accreditation for institutions of higher learning, and I ran across this:

«SACSCOC [Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges] has faced significant challenges in its home territory. Florida and North Carolina have passed laws requiring public universities to switch accreditors every cycle, effectively forcing many to leave SACSCOC.»

Why in the world would NC (and FL) require institutions to switch accreditors every 8-10 years? That’s not cheap, getting completely re-accredited by another accreditor. Why???

«Rather than MSCHE [Middle States Commission on Higher Education] capturing all of SACSCOC’s disgruntled or legally-bound members, a new entity called the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) has been formed by six Southern university systems (including FL, TX, and NC) specifically to challenge what state leaders call the “monopoly” of traditional accreditors like SACSCOC.»

Oh.

Let me guess: after one cycle, the law requiring colleges to switch accreditors will magically be repealed. Maybe even by Democrats. But it’ll be too late.

I actually vaguely recall hearing about this recently (the requirement to switch accreditors), but it got buried under the current flood of awfulness and racism.

And why would an entire state university system be “unsatisfied” with their current accreditor? Well… guess who appoints the governance of said state university system?