ACCREDITATION OF POSTSECONDARY HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON EXAMINATION OF ACCREDITATION AND ITS USES AS A SEPTEMBER 12 AND 13, 1974 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare 41-997 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1974 KE 26 23 93rd COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia HAROLD E. HUGHES, Iowa WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine JACOB K. JAVITS, New York J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Marylan JOSEPH P. MCMURRAY, Staff Director and Chief Legislative Counse CONTENTS Page CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1974 Herrell, S. W., Acting Deputy Commissioner for Postsecondary Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by John Proffitt, Director, Accreditation and Institution Eligibility Staff; Charles M. Cooke, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation (Edu- cation); James W. Moore, Acting Associate Commissioner, Guaranteed Orlans, Harold, senior research associate, National Academy of Public Ad- Dickey, Frank G., Ph. D., executive director, National Commission on Ac- crediting, and Robert Kirkwood, Ph. D., executive director, Federation of Regional Accrediting Commissions of Higher Education, a panel dis- cussing nonprofit academic accreditation.. Hart, Dana R., executive secretary, Accrediting Commission; and Rich- ard A. Fulton, executive director, representing Association of Indepen- Goddard, William A., executive director, National Association of Trade and Technical Schools; William A. Fowler, executive director, National Home Study Council; Bernard H. Ehrlich, counsel, a panel representing the National Association of Trade and Technical Schools and the Na- Accrediting Commission of the National Home Study Council, William A. Fowler, executive secretary, prepared statement__. Association of Independent Colleges and Schools, as presented by Rich- ard A. Fulton, executive director and general counsel and Dana R. Hart, executive secretary, joint statement of (with attachments) Dickey, Frank G., Ph. D., executive director, National Commission on Ac- crediting, and Robert Kirkwood, Ph. D., executive director, Federation of Regional Accrediting Commissions of Higher Education, a panel dis- Federation of Regional Accrediting Commissions of Higher Education, Robert Kirkwood, executive director, prepared statement---. Goddard, William A., executive director, National Association of Trade and Technical Schools; William A. Fowler, executive director, National Home Study Council; Bernard H. Ehrlich, counsel, a panel representing the National Association of Trade and Technical Schools and the Na- Herrell, S. W., Acting Deputy Commissioner for Postsecondary Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by John Proffitt, Director, Accreditation and Institution Eligibility Staff; Charles M. Cooke, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation (education); James W. Moore, Acting Associate Commissioner, Guaranteed Student Loan Program.... Prepared statement of Mr. Muirhead__ Muirhead, Peter P., Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, prepared statement-- National Association of Trade and Technical Schools (NATTS), prepared statement National Commission on Accrediting, prepared statement_ Orlans, Harold, senior research associate, National Academy of Public Administration Foundation___. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Articles, publications, etc.: Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility Advisory Committee, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, charter of---. Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility, members of---- Advertising, Disclosure, Cooling Off and Refund Requirements Concerning Proprietary Vocational and Home Study Schools, proposed rules by the Federal Trade Commission, from the Federal Register, vol. 39, No. 159, August 15, 1974---. Annual Meeting of the Antitrust Law Section, American Bar Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 14, 1974, address by Lewis A. Engman, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission___ Boston Evening Globe, articles of March 25, 1974: Many Career Schools Turn Education Into a Fast-Buck In- ITT Tech Watches Profit, Puts Quality Training in Back Row-- Future Careers, Inc_-_. Fashion Signatures- Juliet Gibson School___ Framingham Civil Service School-- New England School of Investigation___ Sign Now, Said Salesman; $1,850 and a Year Later * March 27, 1974: Home-Study Schools: Con Game or Wave of the Future__ Advance Schools-Self-Proclaimed Industry Savior_ LaSalle The Nation's Largest---- March 28, 1974: Career Schools Bully Students To Enroll. Dead-End Trip on Rattletrap Trucks_ Ability To Pay Is Only Aptitude Needed for Costly Computer Massachusetts Radio-Falsehoods Help Sell Electronics Course__ March 30, 1974: Insider Says Bell & Howell Uses its Name to "Hunt" Students__ The Things They Say To Make a Buck * * *. Attorney General's Office Uses Band-Aid Approach to Abuses---March 31, 1974: A Stamp and Some Money Get Anyone Into Dreamers' Schools__ Articles, publications, etc.-Continued Criteria for State Public Postsecondary Vocational Educational Agen- Fatuity of Credentialing Everyone and Everything, by Harold Orlans, Federal Reliance on Voluntary Accreditation: The Power to Recog- Guaranteed Student Loan Program-Vocational Schools, June 30, Institutions Eligible for the Guaranteed Student Loan Programs, by the U.S. Office of Education, Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility Staff, June 30, 1974__. Page 184 182 165 452 199 2 429 168 163 161 Let's Set the Record Straight: A case for Nova University's External 262 462 Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies and Associations, Cri- 144 173 Operating Criteria for Accredited Institutions, from the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Independent Colleges and Schools, revised June 1973___. 328 Supplement to---. 399 Review of Complaints in the Proprietary Field in Which Accreditation State Agencies for Approval of Public Postsecondary Vocational Education Recognized to Date___. 186 160 500 107 State Agencies for the Approval of Public Postsecondary Vocational Education Which Are Scheduled for Review During the Remainder of Calendar Year 1974__ Washington Post, series of articles by Eric Wentworth : Profit-Making Schools, Deception and Exploitation Charged, Folding Schools Increase Loan Defaults, June 24, 1974. Who are the Users of Federally Insured/College Loan Programs?, |