Education Department's inspector general's high-stakes audit of Western Governors U

Inside Higher Ed: In recent years the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Education has asked tough questions about the faculty role in competency-based education. Now the inspector general has turned its scrutiny to Western Governors University, the largest and most-established competency-based provider, which has long been a darling of the Obama administration and top department officials.

The fast-growing online university, which enrolled 64,000 students last month, has been providing information to the inspector general in response to the inquiry, which began almost three years ago, said Joan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Western Governors.

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