President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting higher education accreditation practices and calling out the American Bar Association (ABA), citing “unlawful race-based preferences” and “ideological overreach.”
With his latest order, Trump said he is tackling what he refers to as a “broken accreditation system that has left students with soaring debt, low graduation rates and degrees of questionable value” and aims to protect American students, families and taxpayers from “exploitative and unlawful practices in higher education,” the fact sheet stated.