August 7, 2008
Guidelines Vs. Requirements
Some regional accrediting agencies have relaxed their standards for faculty credentials at two-year colleges — or have they?
What's the difference between a guideline and a requirement? Not much, if the "guideline" is enforced like a requirement.
Yet that semantic distinction was the subject of several e-mail messages and phone calls I received after my last column on teaching credentials at community colleges (The Chronicle, June 20). One of the calls came from Belle
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