For-Profits. I always wondered how they got accredited seeing some of their programs. I figured that some of them hired a temp staff to do all the work that goes along with accreditation. I've been on accreditation teams (in- and visiting). They are long processes and examine every aspect of the school. Another way they get them is to apparently just buy a school that is about to going but happens to have accreditation. Wow. Corporate take overs. No wonder students feel like they are buying grades for little to no work. It's like Walmart, or Target or Sears. Critics of for-profit higher education have of late drawn attention to what they see as a pattern of "accreditation shopping" in which for-profit entities purchase financially struggling nonprofit colleges, and then hold on to the regional accreditation that the nonprofit colleges had for years, even as the new owners expand or radically change the institutions' missions. Well, the North Central Association of...