NCU Mentor with NA doctorate

Rich,

Your right. I was referring more to something posted online or available to read. The Executive Director is an excellent source

 

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Ok... Let's see what the authoritative source says. The source is here and it says: "ACICS, which was formed in 1912, has been recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education since 1956 .... as a national accrediting body for post secondary institutions offering primarily business and business-related programs of study at non-degree and associate's, bachelor's, and master's degree levels". The quoted statement is the second to the last sentence on the linked page.

 

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By the way, let’s take a look at the qualification (highest degrees) of NPU’s faculty members that are expected to supervise doctoral dissertations.

Core Faculty
1. Paul Jen, MBA -- Golden Gate University
2. Michael Baily, DE (Degree of Engineer-- Note that this is not a doctorate) --Stanford U
3. Manual Gaspay, PhD -- Stanford University
4. Christopher Jing, PhD -- Rensselaer Polytechnic
5. Lee Winters, MBA -- University of Washing (had a medical degree Dom. Republic)

Adjunct Faculty
1. Flora Chu, MBA -- Chadwick University (A diploma mill)
2. Ken fung, MBA -- University of Hawaii
3. Bill Hess, MBA -- Ball State University
4. Ruili Hu, MBA -- Northwestern Polytechnic University
5. George Jen, M.S.C.S. -- Wayne State University
7. Jonathan Lee, M.S.C.S.-- City University of New York
8. Quoc Nogo M.B.A., Marketing -- Golden Gate University
9. David Paul .B.A., -- California State University at Hayward
10. Valerie Schultheis, J.D., Stanford Law School
11. Nick Tehrani M.B.A. -- Pepperdine University
12. Hui Wang M.S., --University of Tsukuba
13. Ping Zhu, M.F.A. -- Academy of Art College, CA
14. Eddie Liu – No degree listed
15. Pen Liu – No degree listed
16. Elizabet Chien-Hale …no degree listed

Only two faculty members have research doctorates. This is a joke.

 

They have been accrediting distance learning institutions since 1926.

"Evolving" probably refers to the fact that they started out accrediting vocational programs at the certificate and associate's level but have now expanded to include academic programs at the associate's, bachelor's, and master's level (and possibly the doctoral level, if their doctoral pilot project goes well).

The reference to the 1890 date is that DETC schools have been providing quality instruction since 1890. To-wit, one DETC school, Thomson Education Direct (formerly known as International Correspondence Schools) was founded in 1890 to retrain former coal miners.

 

Are you certain about that? Further in their history they cite recognition from the DoE in 1959 and from CHEA in 1975, but to me "identifying quality distance learning institutions" doesn't necessarily impart that they have been accrediting institutions for that long. The members of degreeinfo have been identifying quality distance learning institutions, but the forum certainly doesn't accredit them.

 

Okay, maybe "identifying quality institutions" doesn't neccessarily mean accrediting them. However, being recognized by USDOE (as of 1959) and CHEA (as of 1975) doesn't necessarily mean they weren't offering accreditation before then. Just as colleges in the US existed for 249 years before accreditation agencies existed (Harvard, 1636; New England Association, 1885), I'm sure there must have been some time lag before anyone thought of accrediting the accrediting agencies. Let's check back at www.detc.org and see what can be found.

 

Okay. It seems that the DETC's first post-secondary schools (non-degree) accredited were Art Instruction Schools and Education Direct (1956), their first post-secondary school (degree granting) accredited was Cleveland Institute of Electronics (1956), their first high school accredited was Hadley School for the Blind (1958), and their first military school accredited was Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning (1975).

So, how did they identify quality schools for those first thirty years when they weren't accrediting schools?

 

I realize what you are saying, and I'm not speaking negatively of DETC and what they do (in fact I plan on entering a DETC masters program if I'm not granted admission to law school). Frankly I'm oblivious as to when and how accreditation came to be, and by what means the DoE and CHEA started to recognize accreditors.

 

UPDATE

NCU took off this guy's DBA and now the mentor information only shows...

Peter Tai-Ping Kung MBA
MBA University of New Orleans of USA; BBA National Chengchi University of Taiwan.

President, GenPro Consultng, Inc.; (1988-present);
Asst. Vice President, Citibank, Taiwan (1987)
Instructor, National Taiwan Technology and Science Univeristy;
Seminer Speaker, National Cheng Kung University, National Sun Yet-Sen Univeristy in Taiwan.