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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 04:37 PM Mar 2016

Evil accreditor that tried to shut down City College of SF faces its own demise

http://www.48hills.org/2016/03/18/breaking-evil-accreditor-that-tried-to-shut-down-city-college-faces-its-own-demise/

The much-despised accreditor that tried, and failed, to put City College out of business is about go out of business itself.

The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, which has become the bane of much of the state’s education community, has apparently gone so far that even the conservative leaders of the state’s community colleges have voted to get rid of it....

In a stunning show of no-confidence, the presidents and chancellors of all of California’s community colleges voted by more than 90 percent this week to seek an alternative to the ACCJC. The so-called “CEOs group” of college leaders is hardly a radical group and is typically quite slow to endorse this sort of change....

But since the fiasco that was the ACCJC assault on City College, just about everyone in higher education in the state has come to realize that this is a rogue agency that has no accountability and operates with a strange vindictiveness that can do great harm to schools that are a critical part of the state’s economy.


Interim CCSF chancellor Nelson Muntz commented:

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Evil accreditor that tried to shut down City College of SF faces its own demise (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
Sometimes you have to believe in karma. Downwinder Mar 2016 #1
Interesting. Our local community college had some accreditation issues about petronius Mar 2016 #2

petronius

(26,580 posts)
2. Interesting. Our local community college had some accreditation issues about
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 05:59 PM
Mar 2016

three years ago; I never heard any suggestions of impropriety, but now I'm curious. (Although our local school is more geared toward the AA-or-Transfer goals that Beno apparently favors, so maybe there was less potential for bias.)

WASC is the agency for both the CSU and UC, so it seems to make sense that community colleges should be there as well. Hope it works out...

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