https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-durbin-brown-warren-and-murray-for-profit-college-accreditor-should-lose-recognition
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This article did a very good job of explaining the ACICS mess and some other outcomes that may be suggested this week in lieu of shutdown
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/13/much-stake-acics-and-accreditation-upcoming-federal-review
I'm not sure exactly why so many chairs were let go (other than $$)---there was never a reason offered. This happened a few months after many full-time instructors were let go. There was also one (or more) shake ups at HQ...around 3 years ago we had a conf call with a list of various attendees from HQ, the next months's conf call, about half of them were gone from ITT. Maybe they didn't survive the quarterly "boardroom"
@gcj, could not agree more about loony working environment. Finished up my employment last quarter, and am so glad. Was pulling my hair out, literally.
Our director is nice lady, but she is either in denial or a terrific actor. Her favorite response is "oh, they just need to get used to it!" whenever she was told the students were upset about yet another setback on campus.
Chairs were laid off, and replaced by inexperienced new instructors -- usually former students who just graduated and needed to pick up some money quick -- and students were supposed to just "get used to it!" Of course student tuition is high as before!
ITT-Tech's new mission statement: we teach struggling adults to "just get used to it!"
Ironically, right before this story broke about The DOE wanting to dump ACICS, and in the context of ASICS April letter to ITT, my chair voiced the idea that ACICS would never dump ITT because they are getting good money from us. She said that ACICS was not the only accrediting body out there and ITT could always take their business to another accreditor. Yeah, sure...
Seems to me that many ITT employees suffer a kind of cognitive dissonance. Reality? What is that? My resignation from this crazy place will be soon.
Somewhere there has to be a list of all the schools that ACICS is the accreditor for, it has to number around 1000 and only about 100 of those schools like ITT Tech are responsible for the bad outcomes and debt that is threatening their existence, jobs, and reputation. It is pretty sad that they are that corrupt that they couldn't realize this themselves a few years ago and do something on their own. But there are about 800 decent places that probably don't deserve to have this mess right now and hopefully are pressuring ACICS to do the right thing and dump ITT Tech and similar debt factories to the curb.
Meh, if they care about survival they probably will, if they're that corrupt that they aren't willing to ditch the bad schools like ITT they deserve to tank.
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I am thinking the same as you. ACICS will probably agree to throw out the bad schools and survive. So, contrary to Nicole Elam's belief, ITT may not have 18 months to hunt around for a new accreditor.
I don't think that they will let it come to that, but if it does they deserve it. I think it is incredibly under-considered just how big of a drain ITT's numbers are on everything ACICS is on the hook for, and if one move could bring them back into good graces with the feds it would shutting down a very obvious diploma mill like ITT Tech. Think about it, there are thousands of schools and tens of thousands of people who stand to lose their jobs and income because of the graft ITT has perpetuated all these years. If ACICS doesn't have the backbone to boot one of the worst offenders today they deserve what they get.