Accreditation of Postsecondary Educational Institutions, 1974: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session ... September 12 and 13, 1974

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Page 265 - Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
Page 78 - I know you believe you understand what you think I said. But I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Page 30 - Administrator shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered. (2) The term "academic year" means an academic year or its equivalent, as determined by the Administrator.
Page 16 - ... credits are accepted, on transfer, by not less than three institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited.
Page 164 - ... (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide "a program of education beyond secondary education, (3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, (4) is a public or other nonprofit institution...
Page 123 - Education shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies and associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered by an educational institution...
Page 164 - institution of higher education" means an educational institution in any State which (1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate...
Page 164 - Such term also includes any school which provides not less than a one-year program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation and which meets the provisions of clauses (1), (2), (4), and (5).
Page 16 - ... for the purposes of this paragraph the Commissioner shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of education or training offered. (g) The term "public community college and public technical institute...
Page 20 - ... school which by reason of no, or an insufficient, period of operation is not, at the time of application for a grant...

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