Accrediation

On June 11, 2011 the USDE met to report on the status of TRACS as an institution. Their report can be found here. Please feel free to read the entire document. There is a lot of interesting details that you can find there. There is one section I'm going to focus on because it pertains directly this website and highlights some very salient points that I've been making here for a long time. Point number 7 reads.

Stephen Jones recently did an interview with the Greenville Journal where he highlighted a few interesting details about accreditation and the direction the school is headed. I found two interesting quotes that I wanted to look at real quickly. 

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has just released the Actions Taken by the Board of Trustees as of June 21, 2012. This document catalogs all of the actions that board has done including granting accreditation, revoking accreditation, and the key one for BJU, granting initial candidacy status. And Bob Jones University is not mentioned anywhere in this document. 

There has been a lot of talk about Bob Jones University's recent announcement to begin pursuing the idea of regional accreditation. This is over and above their current national accreditation which has already shown to be less than adequate for many graduates.

The following is a reading comprehension pop quiz. The goal is to read the following passage and then answer a couple of questions. The test is not timed, and the answers will appear at the bottom.

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Instructions: Please read the following passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

A reader of this blog pointed out the following section from John MacArthur's testimony.

PHIL: Right. So you went to college. You went to a Christian college.
JOHN: I did. My Dad wanted me to go to Bob Jones University. I didn't want to go. I wanted to play football and baseball and basketball. They didn't have any athletics.

Do Right BJU posted audio from today's chapel message. This is of audio that was edited out of the sermon audio recording. The following is the transcript from the audio. I will comment on it in depth in future posts.

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The following is a guest post by Chuk Gottschall he originally posted it here. 

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Ten years ago, I was a student at Bob Jones University.

Ten years ago, Bob Jones University was unaccredited. It lacked institutional accreditation of any kind--national or regional, Christian or secular. In fact, BJU went out of its way to insult and criticize all other schools that were accredited.

Monday Bob Jones University announced that they are "investigating" SACS accreditation. That has led me on an investigation on what it takes to be accredited. One document I've been looking through is the Principles of Accreditation. I found an interesting piece of information. One that confirms what I've been saying here all along. It has to do with transfer credits.