“Chancellor U. to Shut Down”
“The embattled Chancellor
University will close in August, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Chancellor, a for-profit
institution located in Cleveland, enrolled fewer than 250 students earlier this
year and planned to drop its regional accreditation in the fall. The university was formed
in 2008 when a group of investors, led by Michael Clifford, purchased Myers
University, a struggling private nonprofit institution. Chancellor later landed
Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric Co., to help run
the university's management school. But Strayer University subsequently purchased the Jack Welch Management Institute”.
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/07/09/chancellor-u-shut-down
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/07/09/chancellor-u-shut-down
More on San Francisco…
“Robert Agrella is the new "special trustee" for City
College of San Francisco, which may lose its accreditation next year. The California
community college system chancellor, Brice W. Harris, appointed Agrella to the
role on Monday. Agrella had previous served as the system's representative on
the City College governing board -- a position that was created last year, after the college's
received a stiff sanction from its regional accreditor, the Accrediting
Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The new trustee position will
come with added and extraordinary" powers, according to Harris”.
“Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors
weighed in with an initial take on the crisis. In a news release the faculty
group cited criticisms about the commission that professors at City
College and faculty union leaders in California have voiced, including that the
accreditor has been "excessive and unfair" in its treatment of CCSF
and other community colleges. The association promised to investigate those
concerns and urged the commission to reconsider its decision to yank City College's
accreditation”.
UMUC wins new contract
“The University of Maryland University College won a Department of
Defense contract, expected to be worth $245
million over the next decade, to provide classes to troops, their families
and Defense Department staffers on bases across Europe”.
“UMUC has held the contract since the end of the World War II, so
the decision was not a shock, but the work had been eyed by others. UMUC
also won the rights to offer M.B.A. degrees to overseas military personnel, a
part of the contract previously held by the University of Phoenix”.
“The European postsecondary programs contract has a sibling
contract in Asia, which UMUC also holds. Several other universities -- Central
Texas College, the University
of Oklahoma and Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University – also again secured multimillion-dollar contracts
to teach European military personnel in specific fields.
Serving the needs of the U.S. military is in our DNA. We are
extremely pleased and proud to continue our long history of educating troops
overseas,” said UMUC President Javier Miyares in a statement. The university
began sending faculty overseas in 1949”.
All worth paying attention to
Dr Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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