"This college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn't find evidence of students or f

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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"This college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn’t find evidence of students or faculty."

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This college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn’t find evidence of students or faculty.
Chris Quintana
Shelly Conlon
USA TODAY

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Reagan National University was supposed to be a place of higher learning, but it was unclear how it awarded degrees. By all appearances, at present, it has no students, no faculty and no classrooms.

An agency meant to serve as a gatekeeper for federal money gave the university approval to operate anyway.

That accrediting agency, financially troubled and losing members fast, exists mainly because it was saved by the Education Department in 2018.

Accreditation might be the driest part of higher education, but these independent groups have huge importance: If they approve a college, the government agrees to give federal grants and loans to the students there.

The agency in question, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools, has a history of approving questionable colleges, with devastating consequences. It accredited ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges and Brightwood College, massive for-profit universities whose sudden closures last decade left thousands of students without degrees and undermined the value of the education of those who did graduate. Those closures led President Barack Obama’s Education Department to strip ACICS’ powers in 2016. ...............................

[mr_lebowski]

1. Presumably no students or faculty means no loans or grants or whatnot so at least there's that nt

[ck4829]

2. And if you want to see something really weird, use the internet archive

Last edited Tue Feb 18, 2020, 04:59 AM - Edit history (1)

at web.archive.org and put in rnu.edu and the URLs say things like welcome-to-si-tanka and there are other URLs that describe it as Si Tanka as well.

Si Tanka University is an online unaccredited college... thing.

In fact, the text on the welcome pages are pretty much the same:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190725142441/http://rnu.edu/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180322013622/http://sitanka.us/

Their academics pages are also the same:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180418033544/http://www.sitanka.us/academics
https://web.archive.org/web/20180902135039/http://rnu.edu/academics

The accreditation page (Which is what the OP is getting at) is also the same:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180418033428/http://www.sitanka.us/profile/accreditation
https://web.archive.org/web/20180902134943/http://rnu.edu/profile/accreditation

[safeinOhio]

3. What is the difference between education and indoctrination?

One takes teachers and students, the other doesn't.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. the Grifting Oligarchs Party loves the uneducated

[malaise]

5. THIS

is perfect