"President Donald Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, said and done by college students and instructors. Threats to remove accreditors from their roles are transparent attempts to consolidate more power in the hands of the Trump administration in order to stifle teaching and research. These attacks are aimed at removing educational decision-making from educators and reshaping higher education to fit an authoritarian political agenda."

"By threatening to decertify existing agencies...the EO forces accreditors to either ..[take] on the political dictates and ideological claptrap of the administration, or be replaced by new fly-by-night agencies willing to toe the party line."
(aaup.org)