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Sanctions CriteriaThe criteria for the level of sanctions imposed by the ACCJC include the following: “Issue Warning: Sanction when ACCJC finds that an institution has pursued a course deviating from the Commission’s Eligibility Requirements, Accreditation Standards, or Commission policies.” How much “deviation” is allowed is not spelled out. Some deviation is obviously allowed given the number of colleges that receive no sanction but still are told to clean up some of their act in order to be in compliance with standards. This is clearly evident by going through the college sanctions listed later in this paper. “Impose Probation: Sanction when ACCJC finds that an institution deviates significantly from the Commission’s Eligibility Requirements, Accreditation Standards, or Commission policies or fails to respond to conditions imposed upon it by the Commission, including a warning.” “Order Show Cause: Sanction when the ACCJC finds an institution to be in substantial non-compliance with its Eligibility Requirements, Accreditation Standards, or Commission policies, or when the institution has not responded to the conditions imposed by the Commission. “ “Terminate Accreditation: If, in the judgment of the Commission, an institution has not satisfactorily explained or corrected matters of which it has been given notice, or has taken an action that has placed it significantly out of compliance with the Eligibility Requirements, Accreditation Standards, and Commission policies, its accreditation may be terminated. “ The requirement to “satisfactorily explain” is particularly hard to swallow as a reason to shut down a college. What is the measure of when a college has “deviated,” deviated “Significantly” or is in “substantial non-compliance”? Without more definition, how can ACCJC decisions be anything but arbitrary? Any arbitrary decisions or decisions that are not consistent with other decisions is a violation of 34 CFR 602.18. The ACCJC definitions of sanctions differ from those of other accrediting agencies. For example, at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, “The Commission acts to Warn an institution that its accreditation may be in jeopardy when the institution is not in compliance with one or more Commission standards and a follow-up report, called a monitoring report, is required to demonstrate that the institution has made appropriate improvements to bring itself into compliance. Warning indicates that the Commission believes that, although the institution is out of compliance, the institution has the capacity to make appropriate improvements within a reasonable period of time and the institution has the capacity to sustain itself in the long term.” The ACCJC does not consider the ability of the college to continue to operate while making corrections. Middle States “places an institution on Probation when, in the Commission’s judgment, the institution is not in compliance with one or more Commission standards and that the non- compliance is sufficiently serious, extensive, or acute that it raises concern about one or more of the following: 1. the adequacy of the education provided by the institution; 2. the institution’s capacity to make appropriate improvements in a timely fashion; or 3. the institution’s capacity to sustain itself in the long term.” ACCJC’s Extreme Number of SanctionsFrom 2003 to 2008 the six regional bodies had the following sanction actions and the number of accreditations that they performed for community colleges: Number Warnings Probation Show Cause Termination Total Middle States 95 6 0 0 0 6 New England 64 0 0 0 0 0 North Central 243 0 1 0 0 1 Northwest 56 0 0 0 0 0 Southern 298 6 1 0 0 7 Western (ACCJC) 174 75 20 12 5 112 From June 2011 to June 2012, the ACCJC continued to be an agency gone wild.
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