If federal rule making negotiations were reported like baseball games, in the sports pages of the local newspaper â?? and letâ??s thank our lucky stars that theyâ??re not â?? the outcome of Wednesdayâ??s vote on transfer of credit policies during an Education Department negotiating session on accreditation would look, technically, like a loss for for-profit colleges and the national agencies that accredit them.
Because opposition by any single negotiator effectively means that a rule making panel has not endorsed a particular proposal, Judith S. Eatonâ??s â??noâ? vote on proposed regulatory language that would have required accreditors to ensure that the institutions they oversee do not discriminate in their transfer policies against academic credits of students from nationally (rather than regionally) accredited institutions meant that the committee did not formally endorse it.