FHEAP Goes to Washington, D.C. (photo essay)
Rep. Boyd's semi-literate written response (pdf), 2 years late!
FHEAP Meets the US Secretary of Education
FHEAP in Wall Street Journal
FHEAP's US
DOE Rulemaking Public Comments (Nov 2006)
Contact FHEAP
ACCREDITATION in Higher Ed
A RARE
Look Behind the Accreditation Curtain !!!
Flawed Logic of Regional Accreditation (Troutt, 1979 J of HE article)
Cracks Begin to Show in 100 Year Old System (FHEAP)
What the Regional Associations are really thinking (ERIC link)
University of Phoenix, New York Times expose of; See also: http://uopsucks.com/
US Office of Inspector Gen Audit of (link
to US DOE/OIG Findings)
Rare Example of Accreditation in the South: It Does Not Work
SACS Falling Behind Other Regionals
SACS Regulatory Violations
SACS' Peer Consistency Review Study 2006 (link to SACS document)
FHEAP's Comments on SACS' 2006 Study
US Dept of Ed Staff Report on SACS (link to InsideHigherEd)
SACS Peer Reviewer Selection Process
SACS' Slide into Mediocrity (FL DOE doc link)
SACS on Faculty Qualifications: But Where's Dual Enrollment?
Higher Education Act (HEA 1992)
-- Legislative Intent (Sec. 496)
Scholar's Corner
-- Unqualified Faculty, Univ of Paris (c. 1215)
-- Out-of-Field
assignment problem [forthcoming]
Rhetoric and Lies
-- College v High School Wage Premium Myths (EPI article)
Credential Inflation
-- The Monster that Ate My College Degree (WSJ article)
-- "The Dirty Secret of Higher Education" by Randall Collins (2002)
-- The Credential Society (1979), Randall Collins, pages 191-204
-- Review of Van de Werfhorst and Anderson,
"Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies," Acta Sociologica (Dec 2005) 48 (4): 321-340.
--UPenn Story on Ivar Berg and Randall Collins on Credential Inflation
Theory
-- Max Weber, Edward Shils' Introduction to Max Weber on the University (1974)
-- Max Weber in 1917 (photo)
-- Weber, Michels, and Marcuse
-- Randall Collins on Stephan Fuchs, Against Essentialism (2001)
John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education (2006)
John Dewey's Brain
