When I wrote my initial post on Tuesday about the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) having to repay the state $39 million for non-usage of LMS, there was one number that kept bugging me. We’re not talking about an isolated problem with some faculty forgetting or refusing to use the official LMS. 92% of all […]
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Price Of Faculty Not Using LMS? $39 million for CCSF
This morning the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about City College of San Francisco (CCSF) having to repay the state of California $39 million due to an audit of distance education courses. City College of San Francisco, struggling for every dollar it can muster, must repay the state nearly $39 million because it can’t […]
CCSF Update: Accreditation appeal denied, but waiting for court date
It looks like I’ll have the California trifecta for the past week, having already posted on Cal State and University of California news recently. Maybe I should find a Stanford or some other private university story. In my last post on CCSF from January: Last week, as expected, a California superior court judge ruled on whether to […]
CCSF Accreditation Injunction: The decisions and implications
Last week, as expected, a California superior court judge ruled on whether to allow the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) to end accreditation for City College of San Francisco (CCSF) as of July 31, 2014. As reported in multiple news outlets, the judge granted an injunction preventing ACCJC from stripping CCSF’s accreditation at […]
Ruling expected this week on court challenge to CCSF loss of accreditation
Over the summer I covered the drama surrounding the impending shut down of the largest college in California – City College of San Francisco, or CCSF – due to termination of accreditation. The short version is that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) voted to end accreditation for CCSF as of July 31, […]
Postscript on accreditation transparency: Basic financials of two accrediting commissions
Last week I wrote a post on two significant accrediting actions related to City College of San Francisco and Tiffin University. If there really is a shift in the DOE’s views on accreditation or in the accrediting commissions’ interpretation of standards, then that could have fairly profound cascade effects on competency-based learning programs, private online […]
Higher Ed Accrediting Commissions: Transparency for thee, not for me
Why do I keep covering accreditation issues on e-Literate, a blog nominally about online learning and educational technology? The reason is that accrediting commissions have enormous influence on higher education institutions, particularly as the industry wrestles with questions of which changes are necessary, which changes are worth trying but might not work, and which changes […]