If you guys decide to form JTTAC as suggested by Titus, please let me know and my school can be your first accredited institution. What do you say, Titus?


TheoloM
Titus wrote:... in the USA, you and I could form the Johann-Titus Theological Accrediting Commission (JTTAC)...
Titus wrote:...if we could find gullible institutions, charge a fee and award them accreditation.
nosborne48 wrote:Accreditation of religious degrees has always posed special problems. I think that's where TRACS came from.
johann wrote:nosborne48 wrote:Accreditation of religious degrees has always posed special problems. I think that's where TRACS came from.
TRACS and several other CHEA-recognized Faith-based Accreditors - including one accreditor of Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools - AARTS, can be found here: http://www.chea.org/Directories/faith.asp. If a religious school desires NA accreditation, this offers several legit. pathways. Another source of NA can be DETC. Among other religious schools, DETC has accredited Catholic Distance University. http://www.cdu.edu
My point: I'm perfectly OK with a religious school deciding it doesn't need Government-approved accreditation. Such a school can teach according to its beliefs here in Canada, but not confer degrees. In the US, it may well be allowed to issue degrees without having to answer for standards of these degrees. Not that anyone should care - but I don't particularly like that part. I do, however, realize it's legal - in at least 20-odd states. And NOT legal in a bunch of other states, as well.
What really gets to me is any religious school that:
(1) claims it needs no accreditation (or is accredited by God) and THEN
(2) purchases so-called "accreditation" from some unauthorized (and possibly one-man) source
That combo is dishonest - for both parties. Most religions frown on dishonesty. It always creates problems - and this kind is no exception. There's faith-based accreditation -- and, uh... "ungodly" accreditation. No accreditation at all is far better than the latter.
Johann
scottae316 wrote:I agree with you 99%...
scottae316 wrote:...all accreditors started out as not recognized.
scottae316 wrote:I can see a place for some type of organization that will examine one of these schools and say, it is legitimate, they are not selling degrees. Now I would not call it accreditation, approved, or any type of term like this.
scottae316 wrote:There is one that examines schools that I know of, but does not call it accreditation.
scottae316 wrote:I am considering going back for another Master's from a DETC seminary. I told my wife and she said she want to do it also which was a shock. At $75 a credit it is easily affordable, and is accredited by a legitimate recognized accreditor.
johann wrote: Yes - some, like ACICS, have been around for a long time (100 years +) but their CHEA-recognition has happened only in the last couple of years.
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