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AI Summary: This regulation is an Executive Order addressing reforms in higher education accreditation. The order aims to hold accrediting agencies accountable for their practices, particularly focusing on eliminating what the document describes as unlawful discrimination under the guise of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) initiatives. The Secretary of Education is directed to ensure accreditation emphasizes high-quality, high-value academic programs that are free from unlawful discrimination, support intellectual diversity, and prioritize student outcomes. Key actions include resuming recognition of new accreditors to increase competition, mandating data-driven outcome measurements, launching experimental quality assurance pathways, and streamlining the accreditor review process. The order targets specific accrediting bodies in legal and medical education, requiring them to remove standards that the administration considers discriminatory, and provides mechanisms for the Secretary of Education and Attorney General to investigate and potentially terminate recognition of accreditors who do not comply with these directives. The regulation explicitly seeks to refocus accreditation on student success, graduation rates, and post-graduation economic outcomes, rather than what it characterizes as ideological requirements.