Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 261K · 3 active provisions
For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Accrediting agency” means an entity that provides accreditation of public institutions of higher education and that is not a government agency. 2. “Public institution of higher education” means an institution of higher learning governed by the sta…
1. An accrediting agency shall not take any adverse action against a public institution of higher education for complying with a state law or refusing to violate a state law. 2. Any adverse action taken by an accrediting agency against a public institution of higher education based, in whole or in part, on the institut…
A public institution of higher education that is negatively affected by adverse action taken against the institution by an accrediting agency in violation of section 261K.2 may bring a civil action against the accrediting agency in this state if authorized by the attorney general. The attorney general may bring the act…