The Master’s University and Seminary are on academic probation.
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I saw a claim on Twitter a while ago from a young woman claiming that she had been assaulted while a student at TMC, and I had heard other rumblings about some of this. The fact that the accrediting agency has stepped in now to investigate it is a very ominous sign no matter how you slice it.
I hope that TMC/TMS will deal with all of these matters quickly and transparently so that they can put this behind them.
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
Assuming these are genuine documents (how would we know? It’s Twitter!), I wish them well in doing some administrative tuning. It doesn’t look particularly ominous to me. They will have two years to decide wether they want to comply with the standards of the accrediting organization or not and implement. It should not be a given that if an accrediting agency says you are failing to dot your i’s like this and cross your t’s like that, you are in some way failing as an institution and should fix things. The institution should decide if the requirements are in line with how they want to do things, and if not, then decide whether the accreditation has sufficient value to give up the institution’s preferred practices in order to make them happy. (In the current milieu, it probably is!)
I can’t think of any reason to believe in the inherent infallibility of accrediting agencies.
(Apparently, even the agencies don’t believe in their infallibility, since there is an appeal process… 21 days to formally contest the decision: https://www.wscuc.org/resources/handbook-accreditation-2013/part-iv-com…)
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
[Aaron Blumer]Assuming these are genuine documents (how would we know? It’s Twitter!),
https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/masters-university-and-seminary
That helps. I’m deeply skeptical of crowd-sourced information.
The Santa Clara Signal article is worth a read as well. The univ. has apparently already decided to comply.
https://signalscv.com/2018/08/masters-university-on-probation/
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Accreditation cuts both ways:
- It’s a great PR benefit to an educational institution conveying we are analogous to ISO 9001
- To the student who is about to or has invested thousands of hours and thousands of dollars
- To the prospective employer … that degree means something!
- But the educational institution submits to an outside entity
It’s a good thing!
My general conclusion <<< emphasis on “general”!
Pastors are poor administrators & thus poor college presidents
The college president role is not always an administrative one. But it may be one of the requirements of the accreditors that it is an administrative role… So maybe the current “president” role should become “chancellor” or something and then make the presidency purely administrative. In any case, the accreditors seem to be very particular about how things are structured, so the school will have rearrange all the furniture, so to speak.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
The problem of boards:
- If a board is a bunch of “yes men” and sycophants: They stroke and enable the CEO but really provide no critical voice. Having been a pastor …. I wanted all my deacons to be “yes men”. Thankfully for my sake and my churches, God never gave me “yes men”!
- If the board is composed of all destructive critics, the CEO will be undermined and the organization torn apart
https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/investing/wells-fargo-scandal-board-an…
Wells Fargo scandal: Where was the board?
“This scandal was the result of a serious oversight failure by Wells Fargo’s board, and the directors responsible need to be held accountable,” NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement.
Assuming these are genuine documents (how would we know? It’s Twitter!), I wish them well in doing some administrative tuning. It doesn’t look particularly ominous to me.
Just to clarify things some, I made my initial remark after reading the accreditation letter, not because of the allegations on Twitter.
I also just want to mention that it was ultimately the failure of the Board to protect NIU many years ago.
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
SBTS rejecting NIU gift concluding there was no business model to make it work
http://news.sbts.edu/2015/04/22/southern-seminary-trustees-elect-new-fa…
http://news.sbts.edu/2015/04/24/statement-by-r-albert-mohler-jr-on-nort…
Quote from 2nd link:
it became apparent that no financial model we could establish for a Northland campus of Boyce College could sustain the academic program we had hoped to offer there
The institution’s 2017 financial audit contains a specific finding on appearance of conflicts of interest with the President’s son-in-law supervising a contract from which he benefits, as well as institutional aid that exceeds typical aid awards being awarded to friends and relatives
^^^^ from the findings:
Nepotism / Cronyism undermines any organization!
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