Talk:Regional accreditation

message: *Header and signature added by Adavis444 (talk) on 21:49, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: CITA

message: Although the article mentions that vocational and regional accreditation differ from one another, what are those differences? The article lacks information that provides substance to a reader to discern the difference between the two. Therefore, a bit more information needs to be included in this article to make the mention of differences relevant. The example given in the article refers to specific factors, but does not point to differences, since certain more or less emphasis may be placed on what spells quality in the school's educational program according to accreditation committee. lwalt 22:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Differences between Vocational and Regional Accreditation?

message: Shouldn't DETC be written out the first time it appears?  And isn't it only of marginal interest to those seeking information on accreditation in general?  I suspect it should be set off somehow from the main article. Unfree (talk) 04:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: DETC

message: Does anyone else think that we should remove what is now the last sentence of the second paragraph ("The student who is planning to transfer credits from a nationally accredited school to a regionally accredited school should ensure that the regionally accredited school will accept the credits before they enroll") because of WP:NOTHOWTO? Novaseminary (talk) 20:42, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that kind of "how to" information doesn't belong, but its removal would need to be done very carefully. That paragraph was added to the article over three years ago by User:Mysteryquest, and has remained intact ever since. I suspect that one reason it wasn't touched is that the 4 reference citations after that sentence actually support the entire paragraph; thus, removing that sentence could require delicate surgery. Furthermore, the statement possibly could be revised to be less of a "how to" and more of a "fact". For example, depending on what the sources say, a sentence like that one might possibly be restated as something like "Due to this situation, the U.S. Department of Education routinely advises students who plan to transfer credits from a nationally accredited school to a regionally accredited school that they should ensure that the regionally accredited school will accept the credits before they enroll." --Orlady (talk) 20:57, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How-To 

message: This article appears to be out-of-date but I don't have time right now to work on it (so maybe someone else does or I'll try to circle back around to it later).  In particular, the list of regional accreditors is out of sync with the official CHEA list at http://www.chea.org/Directories/regional.asp.  I don't think the bulleted list in the article should be changed significantly but the Northwest Commission dropped out of CHEA in 2012 and that should be noted probably with a footnote.  Additionally, WASC's junior college division officially and formally split off from WASC proper and is now a regional accreditor in its own right, at least according to CHEA and the new regional accreditor and that, too, should be noted but probably in the text and not in the bulleted list. These two changes should also be described in the history section if anyone can find some good sources that provide rationales for the changes.  ElKevbo (talk) 16:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out-of-date 

message: Sorry all - no time edit at the moment.  I attended an MSCHE zoom meeting over the summer that discussed fed updates.  Essentially, this system is being eaten away at - they said that a college could seek accreditation at ANY regional accreditor now.  I think the implication was so for-profits and sketchy places could go for an easier accreditor.  
Sorry, it was a vacation week (yes, with very careful social distancing), so I don't recall the details very well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:985:5:4620:FCFD:5CCE:83E3:C800 (talk) 13:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summer 2020 Changes