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On the recordMarch 9, 2016
But they have 6,000 institutions to accredit. It does not make any sense to me that you would spend the same amount of time on a well functioning university that everybody regards and the same amount of time on an institution that is in a lot of trouble and everybody knows that too.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander criticizes equal accreditation time for troubled institutions versus well-functioning universities.

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