It was over a decade ago when a visionary team of corporate attorneys and military veterans took a clinical look at the legislation that governs degree granting institutions – and took the educational establishment by storm.
Why?
The team was frustrated by narrow minded attitudes and a wall of ignorance and flawed understandings which saw the résumés of highly capable individuals, especially veterans with priceless experience, automatically filtered out of the running for jobs for which they were amply suited. New technology had seen the ‘human’ element of ‘Human Resource Management’ replaced by OCR – Optical Character Recognition.
Résumés were read by soulless machines and those that did not contain the words ‘college degree’ or ‘university degree’ were automatically rejected and people with years of valuable experience did not even get to face an interview. This led to employers losing out as much as applicants did. Something had to be done.
Innovative Solution….
As corporate attorneys, the team looked at what legally constituted a degree. They ascertained that legislation varied widely and that there was ample legal scope for private colleges and universities to operate as legit degree granting bodies perfectly legally.
Legitimate college degrees can be granted according to privately agreed criteria.
Accreditation, a poorly understood area of legislation, which many erroneously believe is obligatory and guarantees program quality is in fact voluntary and its principle function is to allow access to public funding with little regard to educational quality. Private degree granting institutions that did not wish to access public funding, for instance Title IV Federal Funding in the US, were free to establish their own curriculum parameters and criteria for graduation. Private Accreditation allowed private degrees, granted by p
