How eliminating the Department of Education will impact accreditation

Will degrees in astrology, faith healing, and remote viewing be considered just as valid as real degrees?

Oops — this was supposed to publish on Thursday, but I butterfingered the date. So, two days early! Yay!

Universities have to be accredited for the degrees they confer to be considered reputable. Therefore, accrediting agencies — of which there are many — have a great deal of power. But they are absolutely held to a standard, and that standard is set by the US Department of Education (ED). If your school’s accreditation is not from an agency on the list published by Secretary of Education, your degree is probably not worth the paper it’s printed on.

If you go to a legitimate veterinary school to do actual veterinary medicine, your school was probably accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association's Council on Education, which is recognize by ED. But if you want an education on being a holistic vet, those schools exist but they were unable to get accreditation, because holistic medicine is bullshit. So all the holistic veterinary schools got together and made up their own accreditation agency: the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. Now those schools can say they’re “accredited” in order to deceive students and all the people who bring their pets in to have them magicked upon.

Eliminating ED will, obviously, eliminate this particular overseeing authority of who’s allowed to be an accrediting agency for higher education. So will it all go to hell in a handbasket?