The Heritage Foundation laid out policy recommendations that would sharply reduce accreditors’ role as gatekeepers of federal student aid, advocating state certification and a decoupling of accreditation from Federal Student Aid. The think tank urged shifting oversight to the states and third parties to change how institutional quality and federal funding are linked. Those proposals arrived as medical and other accreditors consider revising curricula standards—an indication that accreditation standards and expectations are under active debate. A separate Inside Higher Ed report said a medical accreditor is weighing scaling back explicit requirements on health inequities curricula, a move that could reshape professional school obligations and curricular design. Together, the proposals and accreditor deliberations signal a likely period of regulatory churn as institutions and accreditors prepare for possible federal rulemaking and state‑led accountability alternatives.