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Monday, November 17, 2008

Battle rages on accreditation, college money, Florida Times-Union

By Adam Aasen
November 11, 2008

As colleges are vying for their piece of the shrinking government funding pie, there are people who think some schools shouldn't be grabbing a slice.

The long-time feud is over accreditation, the process to determine if a school meets the standards to offer degrees, and many for-profit schools are being attacked for not going through the exact same process as public schools.

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