Babel, Taft, FLET, and the DETC

I note that among the applicants for accreditation to DETC, in addition to the aforementioned UNISA, US Open, Western Governors, and Southwest U, we have:

* William Howard Taft U, now California approved, and with a distance law program that has consistently been in the top two or three in the state;

* Uniersidad FLET, which DETC identifies as being in Miami, but the only one I could find was in Quito, Ecuador with an office in Tallahassee, Florida. The website is mostly Spanish, but chief officers Les Thompson and Larry McCullough do not seem to be Hispanic;

* Babel University, whose website is 99% in Japanese, although DETC lists them as having offices in California and Hawaii as well as Japan.

Public comment is invited by DETC, which can be found at www.detc.org

 

Did DETC invited other California DL law schools to apply for accreditation? I remember Taft said that it was invited.

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Jonathan Liu
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Inviting all the California unaccredited law schools would certainly be consistent with DETC's new outreach to schools with first professional (including law) degrees.

 

This is not meant as a putdown of DL law schools, but I think we have to acknowledge that DETC approval for a DL law school isn't much more useful than, say, Calif. state approval for a DL university. If we start to see a massive shift towards state boards of bar examiners allowing graduates of DETC-accredited law schools to take their respective bar exams, then DETC approval will mean something. But unless that happens, ABA accreditation will remain the magic stamp of approval.

 

Still, DETC accreditation may make student qualify some financial assistance from employer or government.

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Jonathan Liu
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