A new survey details the myriad ways that state governments use accreditation to recognize and regulate colleges. The study was conducted by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and comes as the U.S. Education Department has issued new rules requiring colleges to be authorized in every state where they operate. “With the current expansion of federal oversight of both accreditation and higher education, understanding the role of accreditation in the states is vital to addressing changes that may emerge—changes that may affect states as well as the operation of accrediting organizations, colleges, and universities and the relationships among them,” according to a report on the survey.
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35 Responses to States Use Varied Approaches in Accrediting Colleges, Survey Shows
jizbetty - November 29, 2010 at 2:16 pm
This sounds a lot like the variations interpretations of No Child Left Behind and the many individual state programs that promote appropriate education for all. This could be quite the blessing or hinderance.
Betty
not4nothin - May 20, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Wait a minute! I have plane tickets on the red eye to Missoula, MT on Sunday morning.
Will there be enough flight crews? Air traffic controllers? TSA pat-downers?
Will all the ascensions get in the way of my east to west flight?
Oh My Goodness! It’s a non-refundable ticket!
bernardjsmith - May 20, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Dammit! I just put in some raised vegetable beds and started to make some vishniak and now you tell me the end of the world is not just nigh but now!
dailyreader - May 20, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Why is this man getting so much attention for his crackpot theories? We all know that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Even if there is an end-times (which there isn’t), he wouldn’t know about it in advance. It’s not amusing.
rosmerta - May 20, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Jesus said we will not know the day or the hour. Couldn’t have been any plainer. Why a minister who purports to follow Jesus’ teachings is ignoring this one is beyond me.
tee_bee - May 20, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Oh, relax. This is pretty fun, actually. And more fun to come when the sinners and saved are back to work on Monday.
jbarman - May 20, 2011 at 4:49 pm
“So how about it folks — what do you plan to drink and listen to when the rapture comes rolling in?”
I’ll drink the Kool-aid, then later this afternoon I will request an “incomplete” from my students, thus allowing me an extra semester to turn in their grades.
Socratease2 - May 20, 2011 at 4:50 pm
I certainly hope the Lord takes Mr. Camping away at his majestic holiness’ earliest possible convenience. A rapture-like removal would be fine though as long as he is removed from my awareness I don’t care if God takes him out of here in a beat up Chevy truck. Probably a lot of Southern baptists would prefer that method to the more cosmopolitan and glitzy rapture. For that matter, why wait? If you know the rapture is coming at some point, just take yourself out now and avoid the rush, let me know if you need practical ideas on how to accomplish your goals. We’ll catch up with you later.
Neylân Gürel - May 20, 2011 at 4:52 pm
What a birthday party I shall have!!!
11223435 - May 20, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Well, I plan to have a little rye, listen to Miles Davis, maybe “So What?” over and over, and make myself a sandwich: anything with Miracle Whip and white bread.
Marsha Smith - May 20, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Will we be giving our Honors rewards tomorrow? Wait and see!
steiny - May 20, 2011 at 5:08 pm
More proof how the right wing conservative Republicans try to take over the news with lies and myths! Next thing you know they will try to put Creationism in the schools……….oh wait!
Antsy Kuhnwisse - May 20, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Doors: better than “The End” for this occasion, I think, is “When the Music’s Over”
Pink Floyd: “Two Suns In the Sunset”
Dire Straits: “Ticket to Heaven” (for non-believers)
Traveling Wilburys: “End of the Line”
King Crimson: “Epitaph” (I especially like this one)
Maybe Patti Smith: “Waiting Underground”
Maybe Electric Light Orchestra: “It’s Over”
Possibly Blue Oyster Cult: “Subhuman”
I see the Jonas Brothers have something appropriate: “Time for Me to Fly”
Oh, silly me, almost left out Boomtown Rats: “End of the World”
And I suppose one might add Barry McGuire: “Eve of Destruction”
By the way, have you all seen this?
http://i.imgur.com/45mjU.jpg
I thought it was pretty funny.
jffoster - May 20, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Mark Twain allegedly would advise fleeing to Cincinnati since everything happens later here.
hawki72 - May 20, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Order now — Operators are standing by. Don’t be caught with your un-rapturous pants down looking like a mere mortal. Get them while you last: Rapture formal-wear, in-perpetuity pant-suits, everlasting shoes, thumb’s up lapel pins, Lady GaGa stroll into eternity platform shoes, raptor rapture handguns (just in case), edible worry beads, Captain Kirk’s very long distance cell phone. Please allow three to six weeks for handling and shipping; slightly higher in Hawaii; in case of duplicate prizes, ties will be given — no refunds. That is all.
panacea - May 20, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Better be careful. If your pilot is Raptured in midair, it’s a long, long way down. . . .
panacea - May 20, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Hysterical!
InjunTrouble77 - May 21, 2011 at 12:51 am
Harold Camping may be wrong about the end of world for good and the exact date for it. However, he is completely in error. The world is coming to an end of sorts – it will soon be so completely transformed that we may not be able to recognize it. The Christ is soon to return the world openly, not to destroy it, but inaugurate a whole new age – where justice and egalitarianism prevail. See http://www.christmaitreya.org for more info. Harold Camping may have the last laugh afterall (but he will still be on earth when he does).
mrmars - May 21, 2011 at 7:52 am
Are you still here? I’m fb-ing this from the etherial sphere! Ok, maybe not. The closest we got to an “ascension ” event is that I awoke early today to the fact that Jack the cat “descended” some diarrhea on the dining room floor. I don’t think that counts? Although Jack may go to heaven sooner than the cosmic plan if I catch his a–!
swish - May 21, 2011 at 8:15 am
One of my favorites is Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show “Last Morning” from the Dustin Hoffman film *Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?*. (Unfortunately, the only recording I’ve found comes from the soundtrack, and the sound quality is not great.)
Also, how about “Had Enough” (or “I’ve Had Enough”) by the Who?
swish - May 21, 2011 at 9:21 am
Happy birthday!
goxewu - May 21, 2011 at 9:31 am
Of course, Mr. Camping will have the last laugh…all the way to the bank. I heard on the news yesterday that the big-eared ol’ guy with the socks that won’t stay up is worth a neat $72 million. Since his prediction about the Rapture, I’ll bet donations have been pouring in for whatever superstititious crap he’s peddling in regard to it. Inflatible neck pillows for the journey heavenward? A letter of recommendation for that left-behind nephew to make it through Judgment Day?
All of us secular wiseacres can giggle all we want when some evangelical geezer like Camping makes a fool of himself, but a) he’s raking it in, and b) he hurts a lot of innocent, albeit extremely credulous, people. Jack the cat’s contribution to mrmars’s dining room floor is worth more to the real world than Harold Camping.
chemmilt - May 21, 2011 at 10:16 am
Mr. Camping has the beginning of the world just a few thousand years ago. Apparently, he never took a geology class. In any event, he was a few billion years off with the start and we can hope he has a similar error regarding the end.
cbfrench - May 21, 2011 at 11:04 am
Drink: A glass of Pappy Van Winkle’s 20-y/o with a smidgin of water.
Listening: Olivier Messiaen’s “Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps.” (Naturally.)
bhwilcox - May 21, 2011 at 1:12 pm
I have a few things left to finish up here in Florida, so I went ahead and got on the “stand by” list for the 7:10 rapture.
juvenal - May 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Damn! I just bought some cheap bourbon. I should have gone for Jack Black. My first blitzing was with that (about fifty years ago); my last should be the same. But somehow… I imagine there’s more cheap bourbon in my (indefinite) future.
nick3499 - May 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm
understand that the SON does not know the exact date on which the following prophesy will occur—”only the FATHER”. so, anyone who claims to know the exact date has been misled.
yes, HE will come to snatch up all who are “in CHRIST”, but first all who have passed away. “After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. And so we will be with the LORD forever.”(1Th 4:16-17 NIV)
so that you will not be misled today, study the Bible today.(Mat 24:36; Mar 13:32)
goxewu - May 21, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Three rules for would-be prophets/messiahs/saviors and other IPOs for new religions:
1. Put something pre-emptive in the sacred texts about false prophets, anti-Christ types, et al. After you’re gone, they’ll come along a claim successor rights to the business, and you want to insure that they’ll all have to explain why they aren’t false prophets just like you said would come along. This way, you’ll always be No. 1.
2. Never predict anything concrete in the sacred texts that can be either verified to have happened or proven not to have happened. Also don’t try to pull off any miracles that can be photographed, video’d, recorded or otherwise be proven or debunked by concrete evidence. Indefiniteness, hearsay, rumor, and speculation are the lifeblood of religion.
(You have to hand it to Harold Camping, though. He went out on a limb and predicted something that we all could see happening…or not. None of that “know not the day nor the hour” equivocating for him.)
3. Make your sacred text long and contradictory, so that people can find more or less anything they want justifying whatever they want, when they argue doctrinal matters. But make it official-sounding, e.g., The Book of Snavish, Chapter 46 – Boogalangians III, Verse 213, so citations have apparent gravitas.
swish - May 21, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Here’s another one: ideas for Camping’s Sunday sermon.
http://imgur.com/gallery/zf7B9
willismg - May 21, 2011 at 11:27 pm
What I really want to know is why all these folks believe they’re on the Rapture list anyway? I’d lay real money that most of them are about as holy as I am… and I don’t presume to be on the Almighty’s VIP list. I’d say they should have been using their last day trying to ensure their worthiness rather than sitting around on their fat prideful asses waiting for their cosmic limo to show up.
BooksatBeach - May 22, 2011 at 8:20 am
True Christians never listen to date setters. Please do not throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water.
-Steve
http://biblebodynbrains.blogspot.com
goxewu - May 22, 2011 at 9:52 am
Went to the website. From the photo, Steve seems a little soft in the triceps. From the blogposts, a little soft in the head.
vatican - May 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I was trying to bet my whole life savings that the world would not end on that day but no one wanted to bet with me. I guess people are not willing to put the money where their mouths are.
Camilla Brannen Baker - May 22, 2011 at 3:08 pm
I had a ball yesterday. Facebook was alive with baby boomers (like me :), posting songs for the end of the world. Two you forgot: “End of the world as we know it” by REM, and “The Pretender” by Jackson Browne — “And when the morning light comes streaming in, we’ll get up and do it again. Amen.” Perfect :)
goxewu - May 22, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Harold Camping: It’s been reported that Camping’s company, Family Radio, is worth about $120 million. It’s also being reported that a) a whole of lot money came in from believers in the runup to the non-event concerning the “Rapture,” and b) that Camping hasn’t yet decided whether the money will now be returned to donors, many of whom gave up jobs, property and school under the delusion that the end of the world was at hand. Camping is not just an old goofball preacher who should be a foil for our humor. To put it bluntly, Camping is a fraud.
A larger competitor, a sort of Microsoft to Camping’s relatively small dot.com: It recently placed a former CEO one final step from sainthood on the unproven assertion that he’d performed a “miracle” by curing from a distance a female employee of the giant enterprise of a terrible disease. The employee and her friends prayed for the former CEO to intervene on her behalf with God; shortly thereafter, she woke up one night completely cured, ergo the prayers miraculously caused the cure. And the “miracle” turned up after it was known that miracles attributable to the former CEO were being sought in order to get him that much closer to sainthood. Doubtless, among the the ceremonies and vigils attendent to this leap toward sainthood, donations to the giant enterprise experienced a bump up.
The claim in the latter instance is a smaller claim by a much bigger outfit (Camping’s was an all-encompassing claim by a little operation.) But it has about the same relation to real evidence in the real world as did Camping’s; it’s the same kind of shuck and jive. (Hands: How many people really believe that the woman was cured by distance intervention?) Nobody, however, is laughing at, and parodying, and making cute little online comments about it. Something about the fancy uniforms and the classy architecture, probably.