Subject: Re: Issue of accreditation and eCollege.com
WileyCCC@aol.com
Date: Sun 07 May 2000 - 22:52:32 MEST
From: WileyCCC@aol.com Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:52:32 EDT Subject: Re: Issue of accreditation and eCollege.com
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In a message dated 5/6/00 4:10:16 PM, tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
writes:
<< Accreditation and continual improvement upon the lofty goals set
> forth by such agencies as NCATE or OPI can be a reinvigorating process for
> organizations. Here at Montana State University - Northern, we are currently
> engaged in cross-disciplinary revisions in order to gain NCATE accreditation
> next year. >>
Will I be judged cynical if I say anyone who says "aacreditation...continual
improvement ... can be a reinvigorating process" either is not teaching in a
classroom or is hopelessly devoted to the status quo. We who teach adults
don't need any "higher authority" than the peers with which we argue and the
students we teach to assure our quality. I dare say in the measure one is
confident of one's scholarship is the measure you disdain accreditation.
I won't go into the details, but essentially accreditation furthers the
culture of death by means of limiting, unnaturally, classroom seats, teachers
and textbooks so the price is artificially high, and access controlled.
People leave the university deeply in debt to the state and largely dependent
on the status quo to survive.
There is an alternative. the world is full of excellent scholars who have
independently advanced. the net makes them available to all. Now is it the
accreditation people you think about most when deciding what changes are
needed, or the fact that the excellent scholars, who now can reach your
students at a lower cost and better circumstances, intend to do so?
John Spiers, MA Ed Admin
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