An Education Department official rejected allegations that the administration’s push to have college accreditors oversee intellectual diversity among campus faculty is politically driven.
The Trump administration’s aim is to improve the education quality and experience at colleges and universities, not an attempt to “put any particular ideology down anyone’s throat,” said Jeffrey Andrade, deputy assistant secretary for policy, planning, and innovation in the agency’s postsecondary education office.
“We are not trying to bring the culture wars into this important topic,” Andrade said Wednesday to a panel of accreditors, higher education institutions, and student representatives the agency convened to weigh ...