April 15, 2026
DEEP DIVE: Taking AIM at Accreditation: The Administration’s Overreach on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In Taking AIM at Accreditation: The Administration’s Overreach on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, EducationCounsel analyzes the Administration’s anti-DEI policy actions related to higher education accreditation issues, including recent Department of Education actions around specific accreditors and its April 2026 proposed regulation for negotiated rulemaking. This resource explains how these actions, in tandem, likely exceed federal statutory authority that limits the role of the Department of Education in accreditation and advance an anti-DEI position that is fundamentally inconsistent with existing federal nondiscrimination law (including recent court decisions that have reached the merits of the Administration’s anti-DEI position).