UFlorida investigated by SACS

[freeloader]

I'm assuming that schools will have to start the accreditation process with another agency as soon as they obtain accreditation with a new agency? The process is long. Technically, RA universities could shift around between RA accreditors as long as they're willing to accredit across their traditional boundaries. Obtaining NA accreditation could really screw graduates up when it comes to licensing.

That is exactly right.  From what I have read, the shortest any of the regional accreditors will grant accreditation (as opposed to candidacy) is 18 months.  So, henceforth, Florida colleges and universities are going to start a cycle every couple of years of moving between accreditation and candidate status.  This doesn't really matter for the vast majority of people or employers, but it is interesting.

It will also be really interesting if Florida universities are offering programs that meet the standards of their existing accreditor but not their new one, interesting to see how they deal with students in those programs. 

When this is all said and done, this will cost Florida's students and taxpayers millions and millions of dollars every year that are being wasted on this governor's vanity.  His vanity, I should note, over limiting the free speech rights of Florida citizens.

The signing ceremony was held at The Villages, a very conservative and politically influential retirement community.  In other words, as far away as one could pretty much get from an institution of higher learning (even prisons offer high school and college courses).  To me, this says everything you need to know.  If any part of this was about helping students, improving education, or the like, that ceremony would have been held on a college campus surrounded by 15-25 year olds.  Instead, it is about wasting taxpayer (and student) money on a "nothing burger" to make the most conservative elements of Florida's population feel better about combating the woke CRT crowd.  

As an aside, the next time I hear any Republican politician from Florida complain about the cost of higher education, the profusion of administrators, free speech on college campuses, or similar, I will vomit.