Last month the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream announced a new initiative to fund 38 community colleges who are willing to build entire programs with open educational resources. While this is a noble effort aimed at reducing financial barriers for students to get two-year degrees, the group perpetuated the same myth that has plagued higher education for years.
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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, […]
Lack of online course evaluation leads to accreditation warning
ACCJC, the accrediting commission behind the City College of San Francisco crisis, issued an warning to Honolulu Community College in February of this year, with a report required by October 15. As described in Hawai’i News Now: Honolulu Community College has been placed on warning accreditation status by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior […]
Major Twist in CCSF Accreditation Crisis: DOE Threatens Accrediting Agency
I have recently described the seven-year accrediting crisis that City College of San Francisco (CCSF) faces as well as a summary of the dissenting voices. Now it’s time to be petty. We are now seeing just the intervention that I predicted one month ago. Per Inside Higher Ed today: City College of San Francisco’s […]
CCSF Accreditation Crisis: The Dissenting Voices
I recently wrote about City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and its impending loss of accreditation, which would essentially shut down the largest community college in California (85k students). Last week the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), which operates under the corporate entity the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), voted to end accreditation for the City […]