Did you bother to read the article or did you just like the title???
Do you know who the ACICS - *are*? They've been doing this for over a hundred years.
They're one of a small group of college accrediting agencies that operate nationally.
If you think that for profit accreditors is a good idea
Ok, NOW *you're* an idiot. ACICS *is* non-profit.
They accredit FOR-profit colleges.
Reading comprehension much? Or do you insult because you saw two words instead of the title?
Admittedly - what they were guilty of - or negligent over - is the accreditation of two institutions which collapsed - thus leaving the taxpayer on the hook for their student loans - but that they were seen as visa mills - schools which accepted foreign students, took their money but provided little support in the way of education. Well, probably outside of their specialty.
In that regard, I'd really like to see more scrutiny on anyone in schools. When I was at U of MD, I saw *plenty* of engineers who could barely hold a conversation in English.
I somehow doubt - at least in engineering and sciences - that has changed much.
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I think I've mentioned - often - my skepticism on the value of post-secondary education, and how more and more of it functions as a nod to the way
colleges functioned a century ago. So I do value the existence of these agencies to ensure that sketchy online colleges and diploma mills don't fleece
the public and deliver inferior product. We already have full scale academic institutions doing that.
Colleges used to function ONLY for the elite. By and large, only rich kids went at all, and college functioned as preparatory for the rich kid's life
in society. Curricula might be broad and cover philosophy, languages, art, history and so forth, to produce a well rounded person prepared for
life with the other rich snobs. There's even a ring of truth in that for the harder sciences. A century later, college is for everybody, but we still
retain this idea of well roundedness while ignoring the specialization NEEDED for a career. For THAT people go to graduate school or IMMEDIATELY
get training once on the job. This is stupid. We need to improve our schools for the reality of the 21st century.