New Pressures on Accreditation
| Autor: | Kenneth E. Young |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Higher Education. 50:132-144 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4640 0022-1546 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00221546.1979.11778092 |
| Popis: | understood-not by the general public nor, for that matter, by the institutions of postsecondary education it primarily serves. Like any dynamic process, accreditation has been evolving in subtle but important ways over the years; and the corps of individuals-professionals and volunteers-who have been actively involved in accreditation have been so busy making the process work that they have had little or no time to spend in educating others as to its values, its limitations, and its changing emphases. The public's understanding of accreditation has not been helped either by those who, despite their limited understandings or even misperceptions of accreditation, nonetheless periodically have leaped to their typewriters or podiums in order to proclaim to the world their discovery that accreditation was not doing what they thought it should or was doing what they thought it should not. This communications gap has been exacerbated by several important recent developments, namely, a redefinition of the universe served by accreditation, a change in the role of accreditation, and substantial alterations in the attitudes and activities of government (both federal and state) in relation to both postsecondary education and accreditation. Let's examine these developments one at a time. |
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