Thanks @profgoose for the 🧵& featuring this work with @faubusiness colleague @BryanPCutsinger We find 87.5% of programmatic accreditor-association pairs are legally embedded or identical. In a fresh run of the data this morning, I also find that higher structural entanglement is associated with lower grad rates and higher borrower delinquency. Important context as the committee works through the governance proposals at @usdoegov this week!
3/ The empirical case underneath that fight just dropped on SSRN. Cutsinger and Terjesen's "Captured Gatekeepers" studies 32 accreditor-association pairs and finds 87.5% are legally embedded within or identical to the trade association they accredit programs for. The proposals are the defense.
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