This order seeks to reform accreditation processes in higher education with the goal of increasing student outcomes and improving accountability. The order establishes new principles for accreditors, such as requiring member institutions to use data on program-level student outcomes to improve those outcomes. It also encourages competition among accreditors by creating an experimental site to accelerate innovation and increase the consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness of the accreditor recognition and reauthorization process.
The order does not have a direct impact on individual students or institutions, but rather seeks to improve the overall quality of higher education in the United States.
Read the full text of the order at the whitehouse.gov website.