Accreditation Woes

A few years ago, NSA was pursuing accreditation with the American Association of Liberal Education (AALE). We pulled out of the process when contrary to its published standards AALE denied candidate status to another Christian college (because said college had the temerity to expect their faculty to have a Christian view of creation). So we sought and received accreditation from TRACS. One local critic of ours was concerned about our accreditation when we “could have been” accredited by a more prestigious group. But now AALE and the ABA (nationals) and the WASC (a regional) are all in various kinds of hot water with the Department of Education. A fuller version of the story is here. Although turnabout would be fair play, I do hope that AALE gets through this okay. We need more accrediting agencies, not less of them. But it would good if they learned that being yanked around is no fun at all.