HLC's Recent Actions - Cont'd

Enjoy your time off, Chris! Hope you close out 2022 with a great time and welcome 2023 with great health!

 

It surprises me that Mitchell Hamline School of Law is not an RA accredited? I thought it is part of Hamline University? Also can law school achieve ABA accreditation without regional accreditation?

 

A brief look at some stand-alone law schools would seem to indicate "yes."

 

New year, new logo. I prefer the old HLC

 

I like the old one a LOT better. And as Steve says, someone got paid cash that could have been used on something useful. Double whammy.

 

January 2023 Actions
Full actions at: https://www.hlcommission.org/Students-Communities/january-2023-actions.html

Denial of Request for Change
Rocky Vista University, Parker, CO

• Denied the institution’s request to offer the Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program as a credit-based competency-based education program.

Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN

• Denied the institution’s request to expand distance education to courses and programs. The institution is approved to offer distance education courses and up to three programs.

Approval of Request for Change
MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, KS

• Approved the institution’s request to offer an Undergraduate Certificate in Informatics as a credit-based competency-based education program (CIP Code: 11.0401 / Program Level: Undergraduate Certificate / Credit Hours: 18)
• Approved the institution’s request to offer Graduate Certificate in Transition to Teaching as a credit-based competency-based education program (CIP Code: 13.1205 / Program Level: Graduate Certificate / Credit Hours: 23)

Kuyper College, Grand Rapids, MI

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs

Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO

• Approved the institution’s request for a change in the academic calendar, removing the January term and the addition of 8-week shortened courses within the established two 18-week semesters.

Northern New Mexico College, Espanola, NM

• Approved the institution’s request to change the length of term from 16 to eight weeks for courses in the Department of Arts & Human Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences

Conception Seminary College, Conception, MO

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs

Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Bartlesville, OK

• Approved the institution’s request to offer the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration as a credit-based competency-based education program (CIP Code: 52.0201 / Program Level: Bachelor / Credit Hours: 120)

Southwestern Christian University, Bethany, OK

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs.

Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs

Bellin College, Green Bay, WI

• Approved the institution’s request to open an additional location: Bellin College, 2620 Development Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311

Northland College, Ashland, WI

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and up to three programs.

Reaffirmation of Accreditation

University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
Dordt University, Sioux Center, IA
Emmaus Bible College, Dubuque, IA
Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS
Rochester University, Rochester Hills, MI
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College, Mount Pleasant, MI
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
Capella University, Minneapolis, MN
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN
Mid-Plains Community College, North Platte, NE
Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE
University of Akron, Akron, OH
The Athenaeum of Ohio, Cincinnati, OH
Capital University, Columbus, OH
Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Canton, OH
God’s Bible School and College, Cincinnati, OH
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

 

Wow. Times have changed since I was there 20 years ago. Back then, UoP was the largest university in the nation (in terms of enrollments), with about half online. (I never taught online for them.) They were the archetype for distance education (undeservedly, IMO), the McDonalds. If you knew of only one online school, it was probably UoP. (Again, even though their primary business was classroom-based.) People who wanted to make a joke or a dumb diploma mill comment would cite UoP.

And now they might just disappear.

I live in Phoenix and they have zero--ZERO--presence in the zeitgeist here. A new In-and-Out opening is far more newsworthy.

 

Wow, yeah, the end of an era. I also worked for them briefly in Tempe, but just for a few months as a QA engineer. I also taught online for their short-lived Canadian subsidiary. That was the only job I lost because the employer ceased to exist; even an unsuccessful startup in Ireland laid me off first, before folding in about 6 months or so.

 

Thats quite the buying spree; first Grantham, now UoP.

 

April 2023 Actions (distance/online only)
See full actions at: https://www.hlcommission.org/Students-Communities/april-2023-actions.html

Approval of Request for Change

Colorado Christian University, Lakewood, CO

• Approved the institution's request to offer the Doctorate of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision (60 semester credit hours, CIP Code: 13.1101).

https://www.ccu.edu/ccu/counseling/counselor-education-and-supervision/

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

• Approved the institution's request to offer distance education courses and programs.

Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and up to three program

Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL

• Approved the institution’s request to offer correspondence education courses.

Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs.

McPherson College, McPherson, KS

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs.

University of Minnesota Morris, Morris, MN

• Approved the institution’s request to offer distance education courses and programs.

William Woods University, Fulton, MO

• Approved the institution's request to offer the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Organizational Leadership* (54 credit hours, CIP Code: 52.0213).

*WWU's program website only makes reference to Ph.D. in Leadership. There's no "organizational."
https://www.williamwoods.edu/academics/online/graduate/doctorate_of_leadership.html

I will include the denials, though I don't know if these were supposed to be distance programs.

Denial of Request for Change

Alma College, Alma, MI

• Denied the institution's request to offer the Master of Public Health (36 credit hours, CIP Code: 51.2201).
• Denied the institution's request for a change in student body in relation to offering a third program at a new degree level.

Ohio Christian University, Circleville, OH

• Denied the institution's request to offer the Master of Arts in Psychology (36 semester hours, CIP Code: 42.0101).

United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH

• Denied the institution's request to offer the Doctor of Theology (42 semester credit hours, CIP Code: 39.0601).

 

The denials are interesting. You almost think United Theological Seminary constructing an effective ThD program would be a no brainer (been around for 150 years) but apparently not.