Letter on Need for Legislation on Accreditation Abuses Submitted to Senator Bill Cassidy, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions, by Two Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Abstract

Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow, two members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, submitted this letter to Senator Bill Cassidy, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions.  An identical letter letter to Representative Tim Walberg, Chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The letters request legislation prohibiting the accreditors from using their power to push educational institutions to violate the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (2023).

Keywords: accreditation, diversity, preferential treatment, race discrimination, sex discrimination, equal protection, SFFA, Students for Fair Admissions, Commission on Civil Rights