Nahe/adlp

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by Robbie, Aug 14, 2005.

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  1. Robbie

    Robbie New Member

    Does anyone have any information about the National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE) and its accreditation agency, Association of Distance Learning Programs (ADLP)?

    Has anyone ever heard of or know anyone who has had their credentials verified for employment purposes in government by the NAHE?
     
  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Well, if they are allegedly an accrediting agency, then they themselves ought to be accredited by either the United States Department of Education (USDOE) www.ed.gov and/or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) www.chea.org .
     
  3. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    Your warning is not strong enough, Ted.

    Robbie, please let me be painfully direct and unambiguous about this: It's a fraud. Stay away!

    Simple as that.

    As Ted points out, in order for an accreditor in the U.S. to even call itself an accreditor -- at least with any credibility -- it needs to be approved by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE); and if so it will be listed on the USDE web site, and/or on the web site of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

    On the CHEA web site, see the list of the six regional accreditors by clicking here

    On the CHEA web site, see the list of the national accreditors by clicking here.

    On the CHEA web site, see the list of the specialized/professional accreditors by clicking here.

    This PDF file from the CHEA web site contains a list of all accreditors -- even the ones that USDE approves, but which CHEA does not (which is only a handful of them, but at least this file shows them).

    That's it, Robbie. If it's not on one of those web pages or in that PDF file, it's not an accreditor. Period.

    Diploma mills routinely create fake accreditors to make themselves look better. Don't be fooled!
     
  4. Robbie

    Robbie New Member

    thanks DesElms

    I was not planning on going to any schools accredited by such an agency. I was curious if the NAHE services are a legitimate credentialling service for nontraditional degrees or degrees from out of the States. I kind a figured that the accreditation side was not recognized.

    I am going forward with my application to UI&U. Hopefully Dr. Douglas will give me some tips on the admissions procedures. I want to go the route he did with the education/human resources areas in the doctorate program.
     
  5. galanga

    galanga New Member

  6. Robbie

    Robbie New Member

    concordia college and university

    Thanks for the info. I hit on the concordia site you provided. Not a very reputable outfit. I don't believe in awarding degrees other than honorary degrees for life experiences. I wonder how they boast about UNESCO and other credible sources and get by with it?

    I think I will enquire with the FTC about their website and information. HMM>?

    Why I asked about the NAHE is that I have a friend who earned her degree in South Africa many years ago and was looking for a service to have her teaching credentials (education) verified. She asked if I had ever heard of the NAHE. I went to the site and saw that they also had an accrediting agency. It 'got' my curiousity stirred so to speak.

    Again thanks.
     
  7. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    Re: concordia college and university

    The State of Oregon's Office of Degree Authorization uses http://www.aacrao.org/credential/index.htm]AACRAO[/i] for all its credential evaluations. Many government agencies, private employers, and accredited universities use AACRAO or [url=http://naces.org/members.htm]any NACES member agency. Degree evaluations cost around $300 to maybe $500, typically. It's a once-in-a-lifetime expense. Since it's so inexpensive and only has to be paid-for once, I always counsel foreign degree holders to budget the cost of both an AACRAO and a NACES member agency evaluation into the cost of the foreign education/degree itself. She should get both evaluations just to cover all her bases.

    Other evaluators exist. Only a tiny handful of them are actually legit. Most that aren't either AACRAO or a NACES member agency aren't worth taking a risk on.
     

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