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October 8, 2013 Letter from Beno to Dr. Bonnie Dowd Requesting Help
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October 8, 2013 Letter from Beno to Dr. Bonnie Dowd Requesting HelpOn October 8, 2013 ACCJC President Barbara Beno wrote to President Bonnie Dowd of the Association of Chief Business Officers requesting help with regard to the ACCJC’s application to be reaccredited. The letter illustrates the problems that ACCJC faces in its effort to appear respectable. The letter read: “The ACCJC has submitted its petition for renewal of its recognition from the U.S. Department of Education under the regulations for recognition of accrediting bodies associated with the Higher Education Act of 2008. The regulations are contained largely in Part H of the Act. The Commission is now in an approximately two week period in which it may provide responses to the Department's preliminary analysis of the petition for recognition, with the goal of addressing any concerns with compliance that the Department analysis may have identified. This is, by the way, the process in which the ACCJC will have opportunity to respond to the Department's August 13, 2013 letter that provided its preliminary findings on the CFT Complaint, a letter many of you are aware of. The ACCJC is compiling documentation to make its case on all issues that the Department's preliminary analysis raised. We need your assistance with one area described below. Section 602.13: Acceptance of the Agency by Others The agency must demonstrate that its standards, policies, procedures and decisions to grant or deny accreditation are widely accepted in the United States by- (a) Educators and educational institutions; and (b) Licensing bodies, practitioners and employers in the professional or vocational fields for which the educational institutions or programs within the agency's jurisdiction prepare their students. The USDE has indicated it received letters of gratitude from institutions about ACCJC's actions, but not letters of support or broad acceptance for ACCJC's standards, policies, procedures and decisions. It has indicated that it has received letters from four faculty senates at California public institutions, three California-wide faculty organizations (unions) and one national faculty organization (AFT) that "indicated their disagreement with the policies and actions of the agency (the ACCJC)." If these communications remain the only "voice" of the California Community Colleges, then it is possible that the U.S.D.E. will not be able to grant recognition to the accrediting body the region's institutions established in 1963, the ACCJC. I am writing in hopes that you will be willing to provide a letter to the ACCJC that describes your institution's or your organization's commitment to ACCJC accreditation standards and policies and practices (item (a) above.) Because the period in which third party letters written directly to the U.S. Department of Education can be added to the recognition proceedings has closed, we ask that you send any letters to the ACCJC. The ACCJC will be submitting all letters it receives as evidentiary documents, along with a narrative response to the Department's comments, and record of the ACCJC's various partnerships with higher education organizations in the region, and documentation of the wide participation of administrators, educators and others in accreditation activities. Please feel free to call me or Krista Johns at the ACCJC offices if you we can answer any questions. Please send your letter by October 18, 2013. The ACCJC's deadline for submission is October 25, 2013.” And what will be the reprisal for those not submitting letters of approval to the ACCJC? Oct. 24, 2013 Chancellor’s with Opposing ViewsACCJC Commissioner Kinsella WritesOn October 24, 2013 ACCJC Commissioner and Gavilan College CEO Steve Kinsella wrote an e-mail to CEOs statewide entitled Does Your Accreditation Really Matter. In the e-mail he made the claim that “membership organization” ACCJC “is threatened by faculty unions who are attempting to decide among other things which organizations are to be accredited.” The purpose of the letter was to get CEOs across the state “speak up for your accrediting commission.” He then goes on to argue that it is very difficult for people to stand up to union power, but they should. “Those of you who have challenged the faculty unions know the sacrifice and price of demonstrating the courage to say no when you must. That is the type of leadership you now have to demonstrate to retain your accrediting commission.” He goes on to write that CEOs are urged to stand up to the unions and their “paid consultants in the Assembly and Senate.” Kinsella concludes with the following: “if you think this is an ACCJC issue you need to think beyond this because this is nothing more than a fight for total control, void of all but legal constraints that enrich faculty with more entitlements every year. Once they control accreditation they own you.” “If you are willing to stand next to the handful of us who see this issue for what it really is then you need to take a couple minutes to write a letter as the CEO of your college that says the accreditation standards are accepted in your service area and that those standards (and your accreditation) are supported by your communities.” I guess the CEOs now speak for the service area and the communities, not just for themselves or for the District Governing Board when it so agrees. “Oh yes” he writes in the following PS: “I have great personal respect for the faculty I have had the pleasure of working with over the past 23 years. 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