In addition, the Regents propose to tighten standards for the state's teaching colleges by requiring them to earn national accreditation.

Meanwhile the commission he appointed to tighten standards seems to have spent three weeks loosening them.

In later years, the university allowed individual colleges to tighten standards, and permitted students only a single year to complete their remedial programs.

Since then, the agency has gradually tightened standards and occasionally revisits old standards.

But the comptroller's office continued to be disappointed by the steps Riggs was taking to tighten standards.

It also tightened academic standards for admission to the nine senior colleges and shifted their financial burden to the state.

To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college.

A24 Congress has responded to attacks this year on lawmakers' behavior by trying to tighten ethical standards.

He has sought to raise taxes, reduce perquisites for legislators and tighten ethical standards.