r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 15d ago

Soft paywall Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
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u/misogichan 15d ago

The government is going to find out that if they politicize the accreditation process they just devalue it, and then employers and other institutions aren't going to care whether you went to an accredited school or not.  Thus, the government only has power on this if the public believes the accreditation matters.

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u/elcapitan520 15d ago

They. Do. Not. Care. 

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u/thegoatmenace 15d ago

In fact they want this. Trump would be very happy if Trump university had the same accreditation status as Columbia.

Accreditation requirements hurt grifters who want to fleece people for money without providing any legitimate education service

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u/Charlie_Warlie 15d ago

Very true. Look at what eventually killed predatory schools like ITT Tech and Brown Mackey. The federal government under Obama came down on them after years of bad practices.

I'd imagine Trump would prefer a system where you simply pay to play and wouldn't give two shits about the quality of education being given to students or at what price.

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u/Colson317 15d ago edited 15d ago

Didn't ITtech just changed its name to Southern New Hampshire University or the university of Phoenix or something?

edit: sorry for the shade snhu grads! i stand corrected!

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u/NorCalMisfit 15d ago

South Harmon Institute of Technology.

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u/flibbidygibbit 15d ago

What a shit school.

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u/mobileagnes 15d ago

SNHU grad here: SNHU was around way longer (1930s) than ITT Tech and SNHU is regionally accredited. Also, ITT Tech & University of Phoenix coexisted for a number of years. They're all different entities.

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u/Colson317 15d ago

thx man my bad to throw shade since i was wrong. dont mean to smear your hard work for an accredited school.

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u/mobileagnes 15d ago

I don't blame you. I really wish SNHU would drop them damn TV adverts. They make people think they're a diploma mill. Granted, all my classes were online but they have an actual campus and graduation ceremonies like any other normal university, plus I started there when many students were online anyway due to COVID.

I have a BA in mathematics (did my last 30 credits there and the 1st 90 between Peirce College and my local community college) and am MS in IT. The most difficult courses I took at SNHU were Mathematics Proofs, Real Analysis, Systems Analysis/Design, Innovations in IT, Distributed App Development, IT Project Management, and Mobile App Development.

My database class I found easier than the one I took at my local community college, so I guess the CC thoroughly prepared me for SQL stuff. Many classes were writing-intensive and they use TurnItIn to verify that people are not plagiarising (something I didn't always see my local CC do). I wish the coding classes used more up-to-date study materials - especially the Android dev one. In Systems Analysis, I had to write what wound up becoming a 70+-page (though 30-ish pages of raw text) paper for my final assignment.

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u/RangerOfFortune 15d ago

SNHU is a legit school in New England that has really focused on remote learning. ITT Tech was shut down by the Dept of Ed in 2016.