Uprising Happens At California Community Colleges Over Accreditor
There are no easy answers for California’s two-year college system as it faces an unprecedented decision to move to a new accreditor.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
California community colleges navigate path to replacing or overhauling accreditor
An uprising has been taking place in California.
The state’s 113 community colleges are breaking with their accreditor in an effort to reform the system of checks and balances that determines the institutions’ quality.
This summer the two-year system will begin formally pushing away from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges while also attempting to change that agency. This push is due to a number of reasons, ranging from the poor relationship and animosity between ACCJC and its member colleges to the need for the community colleges to have an accreditor that isn’t limited to overseeing two-year institutions.
“It is really, extremely complicated when you think about 113 of our institutions and upwards of 150 institutions altogether in ACCJC. Change is not something you can do with the flip of a light switch,” Brice Harris, the system’s chancellor, said in an interview.
California community colleges navigate path to replacing or overhauling accreditor (Inside Higher Ed | News)
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I can not believe they want to toughen the requirements. Educational standards only go down to push more students through a farce called education by liberals.Two year schools can be preparation for transfer to a four year school. Too often it is more like preparation H with ethnic , LGBT, and social studies crammed into a degree program.