City College of San Francisco’s 85,000 students will lose their affordable public community college if its accreditation is revoked as scheduled. Some of the problems found by the regional Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges were indeed serious, but the situation also illustrates some of the problems with the accreditation process. It is at times focused more on disciplining schools and obscure governance deficiencies than on the educational issues that matter most… The accrediting commission’s chief job is to hold colleges to a certain standard, but it also must be cognizant of the harm it can do by imposing excessively harsh penalties and timelines. Are the shortcomings in San Francisco so dire that 85,000 students aren’t learning anything worthwhile? Would they really be better off without any classes if the school can’t meet all the commission’s conditions within the next year?

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by The Editorial Board, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: July 11th, 2013, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.