Stephen Jones

We're not out to change it, we're not out to dictate that it should be something else. The Governance of the school doesn't change under the present mission.

Bob Jones III Chapel 12/07/2011

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. 

I know that many people wonder why it would be useful to break down an old document from 1995. The primary reason for doing so is the insistence by Bob Jones III that SACS is the one who has changed, and that Bob Jones University hasn't changed at all.

After making an official announcement regarding BJU's decision to pursue regional accreditation there seems to be a bit of a comedy of errors happening in the administration building. First there was an infamous rant by Bob Jones III where, among other things, he insisted that regional accreditation will not change anything at BJU.

In what will become Bob Jones III's infamous rant on accreditation he gave what seemed to be a minor aside towards the end.

This is not the first time we have pursued the possibility of SACS accreditation.

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.

Today Bob Jones University announced that they will seek SACS Accreditation (a regional accreditor). First lets break down the announcement and from there talk about what all this means.

Update: Please see my followup Post here.

Breaking news Bob Jones University announces in Chapel today that they are going to seek regional accreditation. In a coming post I'll breakdown exactly what this means and how we'll move forward. For now here is the announcement.