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- From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu
- Subject: Re: 2nd try: Removal of Accreditation
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.015851.5070@mccc.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 01:58:51 GMT
- References: <5493@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
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- In article <5493@naucse.cse.nau.edu> rrw@elden.cse.nau.edu (Bob Wier) writes:
- =Having received no responses on this the first time, I
- =thought I would try again now that more people are back
- =for the fall semester.
- =
- =I'm interested in what may happen with accreditation of
- =programs given the severe cutbacks/layoffs which are occuring
- =at some universities (mine included). If you were awarded
- =say, a "6R" a couple of years ago in the past, under what
- =criteria might CSAB or ABET come in and do a re-evaluation
- =to determine if the faculty/staff situation has fallen below
- =established minimums? What might trigger such a re-
- =evaluation?
-
- I don't speak for ABET but as a former visitor, it seems that ABET is
- too busy doing scheduled visits to consider doing an early visit. I
- suspect that they (as do we) hope that the enrollment situation is
- merely the low region in a cyclical pattern and that it would be rash to
- remove accreditation from a school just because they had problems in the
- low period.
-