{"id":43856,"date":"2013-12-13T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=43856"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:48:57","slug":"us-senate-full-committee-hearing-accreditation-as-qa-meeting-the-needs-of-21st-century-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/12\/13\/us-senate-full-committee-hearing-accreditation-as-qa-meeting-the-needs-of-21st-century-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Full Committee Hearing &#8212; Accreditation as QA: Meeting the needs of 21st century learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/hearing\/?id=ac694134-5056-a032-5200-5c2409df2cb5\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43858\" alt=\"AccreditationFor21stCentury-USSenate-12-12-13\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/AccreditationFor21stCentury-USSenate-12-12-13.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/AccreditationFor21stCentury-USSenate-12-12-13.jpg 712w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/AccreditationFor21stCentury-USSenate-12-12-13-150x82.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Witnesses\/Panel I:<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><b> Dr. Arthur Levine <\/b> , President of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Levine.pdf\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><b> Dr. Ralph Wolff <\/b> , Former President of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Alameda, CA<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Wolff.pdf\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><b> Dr. Daniel J. Phelan <\/b> , President of Jackson College, Jackson, MI<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Phelan.pdf\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><b> Ms. Laura King <\/b> , Executive Director of the Council on Education for Public Health, Silver Spring, MD<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/King7.pdf\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see\/originally saw this at:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/12\/13\/accreditation-issues-practical-and-philosophical-display-dc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Accreditation Agita<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from insidehighered.com &#8212; by Michael Stratford and Paul Fain<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">WASHINGTON &#8212; During a hearing Thursday, several Democratic senators mulled whether the federal government should get more involved in the accrediting process. They might have been less enthusiastic if they saw what was happening at another meeting two blocks away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The federal panel that reviews accreditors, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, held that gathering. Faculty members and students from the City College of San Francisco, who for the past year have essentially waged war against the accrediting agency that is threatening to revoke the accreditation of their college, pleaded their case to the panel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/senator-asks-if-accreditors-have-lost-focus-on-quality\/205537\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Senator asks if accreditors have lost focus on quality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from educationdive.com by Daniel Shumski<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Witnesses\/Panel I: Dr. Arthur Levine , President of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ Download File Dr. Ralph Wolff , Former President of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Alameda, CA Download File Dr. Daniel J. Phelan , President of Jackson College, Jackson, MI Download File Ms. Laura King , Executive [&hellip;]<\/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":[113,415,115,302,36,35,102,285,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-accreditation","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-learning","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43856"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43874,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43856\/revisions\/43874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}