<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] [Fwd: Politics does matter, especially when it comes to accrediting colleges and universities]</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> That story is absolutely chilling.  And what will happen when (not if), some future administration decides that colleges still aren’t doing a good enough job, and decides that it has to monitor and mandate course offerings, required courses, and course content?  Anybody that says “That will never happen” gets a pie in the face. By the way, can anyone cite where in the Constitution the federal government is delegated the authority to do any of this, or even have a Department of Education in the first place?  Not that anybody in DC gives a rat’s a** about the Constitution any more, just for sake of entertaining discussion. Ron Paul!! -- Ken Zahringer, RPT University of Missouri School of Music </BODY> </HTML>