Accreditation affirmed for DSU: School put on ‘notice’
July 13, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
Just a day after North Dakota’s new university system chancellor said a review of Dickinson State University’s enrollment problems was going well, officials announced the school will remain accredited but that it had been put on “notice” from the Chicago-based Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. Continue Reading
What is accreditation anyway? We have a school that hands out diplomas in Cracker Jack boxes and it’s put on notice?
Is accreditation just something colleges use to pressure for more money and positions and as long as that keeps going everything else will be overlooked?
I would really think that in order to actually means something that Dickinson State would lose it’s accredidation, and have to go through a whole process to become accredited again.
I mean gee whiz, we have outright fraud here, obviously with widespread knowledge and yes, a couple of people are gone, but no where near all who would have knows and participated. Of course everyone says that is over, and we are taking steps, you can sit in criminal court and hear that everyday from people who will go out and recommit the second they are free to do so.
I’m becoming quite sceptical concerning the entire system.
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