Sunday, March 1, 2009

Accreditation actions for other colleges

The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) met in January and took actions with regard to dozens of institutions. As you know, both Irvine Valley and Saddleback colleges got essentially a clean bill of health from the Commission. 

But lots of colleges were on an ACCJC sh*t list of one kind or another. What happened to the other colleges?

Well, it's a bloody mess. I visited ACCJC’s website, which supposedly presents “the actions taken by the Commission … beginning with the most recent meeting.”

In my experience, ACCJC is slow to update this page, but it has at long last posted the results of their January meeting (see Recent Commission Actions).

According to that site, the Commission's January actions are as follows:

Reaffirmed Accreditation: 4 colleges
Removed from Warning and Reaffirmed Accreditation: 6 colleges
Removed from Warning: 1 college (Victor Valley College)
Removed from Probation and Reaffirmed Accreditation: 1 college
Removed from Probation: 1 college
Removed from Probation and Placed on Warning: 1 college
Placed on Warning: 6 colleges:
Cuesta College
El Camino College
Long Beach City College
Rio Hondo College
Santa Ana College
Santiago Canyon College

Continued on Warning: 5 colleges
Continued on Show Cause: 1 college
Placed on Probation: 3 colleges
Placed on Show Cause: 2 colleges
Accepted Midterm Report: 2 colleges
Accepted Focused Midterm Report: 6 colleges
Accepted Progress Report: 4 colleges:
Grossmont College
Heald College
Irvine Valley College
Saddleback College

Accepted Follow-Up Report: 8 colleges
Accepted Report: 1 college
Accepted Closure Report: 1 college
Accepted Show Cause/Closure Report and Terminated Accreditation effective April 3, 2009: 1 college
Rejected Follow-Up Report: 1 college

Orange Coast College:

I visited OCC’s Coast Report and found there a recent article (OCC’s fate in the mail) according to which

An updated [college accreditation] report will be sent to the [ACCJC] Thursday as Orange Coast College tries to salvage its name and get off a statewide warning list. OCC was put on warning by the group in June after failing to meet recommendations the committee made more than a year ago…. The recommendations included working on student learning outcomes, strengthening program review, creating a long term planning and budget process and distinguishing the functions of the college from the district.


…Despite the strides Coast has made, campus officials say they remain unsure whether OCC will be taken off warning.
“What the committee thinks is anyone’s guess,” [OCC President Bob] Dees said…. [My emphasis.]

That last recommendation sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it?

I keep hearing that, since our colleges received their ACCJC seal of approval, Chancellor Mathur seems to have forgotten all about distinctions between the roles and responsibilities of the colleges (on the one hand) and the district (on the other) and the importance of maintaining them (highlighted by our recent anxiety-inducing accreditation adventure). 

For instance, apparently, the Chancellor now seems to think that it is the job of the district to initiate the two colleges' continued accreditation efforts, among other things.

Nope.

My new rug.

TigerAnn smiles and laughs on this fine day

TigerAnn plainly enjoys this fine weather. She sniffed the air and explored.
She nearly caught several lizards. Then she lounged for a while in the sun. She's a happy girl.

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