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., Maryland JOSEPH P. MCMURRAY, Staff Director and Chief Legislative Counsel CONTENTS Page 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- Hart, Dana R., executive secretary, Accrediting Commission; and Rich- 270 Prepared statement____ 301 (III) 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 Prepared statement of Mr. Muirhead__. Muirhead, Peter P., Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Postsecondary Edu- cation, U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and National Association of Trade and Technical Schools (NATTS), prepared National Commission on Accrediting, prepared statement_ Orlans, Harold, senior research associate, National Academy of Public Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility Advisory Committee, De- partment of Health, Education, and Welfare, charter of.. Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility, Advertising, Disclosure, Cooling Off and Refund Requirements Con- cerning Proprietary Vocational and Home Study Schools, proposed rules by the Federal Trade Commission, from the Federal Register, 423 Annual Meeting of the Antitrust Law Section, American Bar Associ- 433 ITT Tech Watches Profit, Puts Quality Training in Back Row-- Massachusetts Radio-Falsehoods Help Sell Electronics Course__ A Stamp and Some Money Get Anyone Into Dreamers' Schools-__ 73 United States Gives Millions, Requires Little of Career Schools__ Articles, publications, etc.-Continued Criteria for State Public Postsecondary Vocational Educational Agen- Educational Consumer Protection Features of the Revised Criteria for 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 Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies and Associations, Cri- Page 184 182 165 452 199 2 429 168 163 161 262 462 144 Nationally recognized Accrediting Agencies and Associations, February 1974. 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 Selected Listing of AIE Staff On-Site Investigations of School Prac- State Agencies for Approval of Public Postsecondary Vocational Edu- 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, 186 160 500 107 107 88 Folding Schools Increase Loan Defaults, June 24, 1974--- 91 95 100 Who are the Users of Federally Insured/College Loan Programs?, a bulletin of the Policy Analysis Service of the American Council on Education, vol. 1, No. 2, 1974__ 253 Communications to: Brooke, Hon. Edward W., a U.S. Senator from the State of Massa- Orlans, Dr. Harold, senior research associate, National Academy of Pell, Hon. Claiborne, a U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island, Fischler, Abraham S., president, Nova University, Fort Lauder- Fulton, Richard A., executive director and general counsel, Asso- Page 140 437 257 278, 282, 441 Phillips, James M., Associate Director, National Commission on 252 460, 504 Table 1.-Distribution of expected loan-takers (federally insured/college loans) by type of institution and parental income, 1973 first-time full-time freshmen___ Table 2.-Percent 1973 first-time, full-time freshmen expecting to borrow from federally sponsored/college loan programs and expected average loan by 1972 family income and control and type of institution, preliminary data based on 1973 norms_. 255 256 Chart II.-Regulations status, Public Law 92-318, Education Amendments of 1972___ 108 |