{"id":19018,"date":"2011-05-13T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=19018"},"modified":"2011-05-13T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:50:08","slug":"reflections-on-fixing-accreditation-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/05\/13\/reflections-on-fixing-accreditation-from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “Fixing accreditation, from the inside”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From DSC:<\/span><\/strong>
\nI submitted the following comment to the solid article “<\/span>Fixing accreditation, from the inside<\/a><\/strong><\/span>” (from today’s InsideHigherEd.com posting by Doug Lederman)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you for the article\/posting here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Re: the committee:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Where are the students?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Where is the representation from those outside academia<\/em>?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • That is, can more parties who pay the bills for education be represented?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Re: higher ed as an industry:<\/span><\/strong>
    \nI am a liberal arts grad and I work at a liberal arts college; as such, I believe in the value of liberal arts. However, I’ve been reflecting upon why the teaching and learning environment has been changing so much and why higher education has become more of a business. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Actually, I think it’s always been somewhat of a business, but even more so these days. The key reason for me involves the *cost* of obtaining an education.<\/span><\/p>\n

    It’s one thing to charge $3000\/yr for tuition and it’s another to charge $25,000+\/yr for tuition. If it means essentially having to pay the price of a house to obtain an education for your children, doesn’t the set of expectations change for students? For the parents of those students? For businesses who are helping pay the tuition of their employees?<\/span><\/p>\n

    If the accreditation bodies don’t respond to the growing suspicion towards them — and towards higher education as a whole — it will be like water going around a rock in a stream. People will flow right by them — whether the government assumes control or not.<\/span><\/p>\n


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    From DSC: I submitted the following comment to the solid article “Fixing accreditation, from the inside” (from today’s InsideHigherEd.com posting by Doug Lederman) Thank you for the article\/posting here. Re: the committee: Where are the students? Where is the representation from those outside academia? That is, can more parties who pay the bills for education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,57,36,35,3,74,285,480,310,321],"tags":[768,290,586,585,566,607,27,792,722,728],"class_list":["post-19018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-united-states","tag-accreditation","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-leadership","tag-legislation","tag-society","tag-staying-relevant","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19018"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19025,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19018\/revisions\/19025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}