D-Q University loses regional accreditation

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  1. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    D-Q University, one of 34 tribal colleges in the USA, recently lost its WASC regional accreditation for several reasons. One contributing factor was the loss of federal funding (US Dept of Interior) because the college enrollment of Native Americans fell below 51%.
     
  2. jugador

    jugador New Member

    Jeez. I really have a problem with accreditation criteria being based, even in part, on racial makeup of the student body. MLK and others in the civil rights movement gave their lives for integration. Today, there are whole dormitories and graduation ceremonies reserved for specific ethnic groups. This country is insane.
     
  3. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    That's not what Ian posted. He said the school lost its federal funding because of it's racial make-up. Funding problems led to the school's loss of accreditation. This is significantly different.
     
  4. jugador

    jugador New Member

    I understand that. The fact is that the failure of the school to achieve 51% native American enrollment resulted in a revocation of federal funding. The net effect led to the loss of accreditation -- right?
     
  5. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I agree with you. But I also agree with Rich that this is probably something different.

    Ian knows about the details of WASC's reasons and I don't, so I can only speculate.

    But apparently D-Q U. has been receiving federal funds intended to help American Indian educational ventures. (Is the Bureau of Indian Affairs part of the Interior Dept.?)

    If D-Q U's Indian enrollment fell to the point where it failed to meet that threshold, I guess it no longer qualified for those particular targeted programs and lost an important funding source. And apparently insolvency was part of its problems with WASC. (Again, Ian knows this and I don't.)

    My observation is that the D-Q U administration must have seen all this coming. It must have been happening for longer than one semester. So why did they let their Indian enrollment fall? And if they intentionally chose to let that happen, then why did they permit themselves to remain so dependent on increasingly inappropriate specialized funding?

    It's like a school collecting NIH research money, closing its medical school, then wondering where the money went.

    Sounds like bad management to me.
     
  6. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

  7. plantagenet

    plantagenet New Member

    Link didn't work for me, but I can understand why they shortened the name.

    "Deganawidah-Quetzalcoat University" Is probably a bit too cumbersome.
     
  8. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    Here's more information from the Los Angeles Times (2/20/05).

    The school was forced to close after it lost its accreditation and $1 million in federal funding.

    Accreditation was revoked because the school failed to correct several problems:
    The staff lacked sufficient experience,
    Its board of trustees was to small,
    The school failed to use "established college processes" for selection of college courses and programs,

    The commission also expressed deep concerns about D-Q's financial condition, including handling of student financial aid packages and an impending financial collapse."

    The college is appealing its loss of accreditation.
     

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