An interesting, albeit bleak, post from Eileen Peck at WCC Watch:

The moral of the story here is that the HLC doesn’t play when the academic staff at a higher education institution doesn’t take its marching orders from someone who isn’t qualified to lead a college or university academically.

Lowering academic qualifications for the role, hiring an unqualified leader, bringing in a President whose career has focused on money rather than teaching and learning – all create a strong basis for concern at the HLC. Those concerns will focus on the qualifications of the school’s leadership, the lack of leadership by the Board of Trustees, the lack of support from the faculty and more importantly, the leader’s inability to support the faculty in academic matters.

Hmmmm … sounds pretty familiar unfortunately.