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Developments at Bari Weiss' Anti-Woke University

🕑 Added 2024-11-18 04:06:36 +0000 UTC

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Anjan Sarkar

Data Science by Lex Friedman, Journalism by Ben Shapiro, Creative Writing by Bari Weiss, Scientific Thinking by Graham Hancock and Huberman, Heuristics by Joe Rogan.

Linda Sears

If Trump gets his way clearing out the bureaucracy, there will be lots of positions to fill.

Nicola DiNicola

Hi Chris and Matt, Graduate admissions officer here. There are varying accreditation and degree-granting institutions determined by individual countries’ systems. There are classifications of types of degree-granting institutions eg. Professional, theological, special interest etc. and it varies by country. But, if an institution says it not accredited, it is most likely referring to the international designation database managed by UNESCO in collaboration with the International Association of Universities called WHED, World Higher Education Database. You can look up any institution on WHED and it will give information about it and its programs etc. If an institution doesn’t show up on WHED, it is NOT internationally accredited. So you can get a bachelor degree in a degree-granting institution in USA, but if it is not accredited according to WHEd you can’t use the degree to qualify for grad school in USA or any other country. So, the credential has limited value; It may be fine for many who want a postsecondary degree but one with local relevance only or one that is specific to a certain career path in the home country. Obviously, the word accreditation also refers to specific designations like engineering etc. but not in this context.

Mike

My prediction is that most graduates will end up working as Republican legislative staff and for advocacy groups and sort of thing.

Linda Sears

It makes all kinds of sense the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board gave University of Austin permission to grant degrees. The members of the board are appointed by the governor, who has been trying to push through school vouchers to undermine public schools for the past few legislative sessions.

Hugh Crow

Isn't Justice Thomas's buddy Harlan Crow (no relation) a major donor to U of A? Pretty sure he owns the de facto campus.

Guruspod 2

Having been here for over a month now, I can fully understand that that approach is fully in keeping with the American approach to life and society

Ad Tastic

And just to add further confusion, there's often multiple different accreditation bodies offering similar accreditations all with slightly different standards and varying reputations. Not just a single one that is recognized and mandated by the Govt. In fact it's often not mandatory to be accredited at all. Employers can hire trained staff that aren't accredited if they want to but obviously you won't get paid as much and it will look bad if you ever get sued, as well as to any prospective customers. But that's America, you can pick and choose how you want to slice it here.

Ad Tastic

Just to clear up some confusion. You have to sit board exams for your professional accreditation AFTER you get your academic qualification here in the US. They're separate processes. It's not like Australia where your professional license comes with the degree. Aussie living in US here.

Linda Sears

Fortunately, bigger dogs than I are running that gauntlet!

Nancy Hale

Good luck with the reaccreditation. Hope it doesn’t mean more work for you, I’ve heard they can be a bear

Nancy Hale

Oh, and Bari & co also set up a K-12 education consultancy thing under U of Austin banner, named for John Stuart Mill https://www.uaustin.org/mill

Nancy Hale

Looks like a lot of the first student cohorts will have career paths in digital domains — programming & data analysis and content creation (the humanities, politics & creative writing stuff.)

Linda Sears

My guess is SACSCOC would be the same accrediting institution for Austin University.

Siobhan Murphy

Is fascinating. Yey. More management consultants

John Pohl

"The university is not accredited but received approval from the state of Texas to grant degrees..." And no one gets tenure. The perfect scam -- $32,000 per year per student.

Linda Sears

On the accreditation front, my husband teaches photography at the University of Texas, Arlington, and their degrees are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. My community colleges’s degrees are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Colleges. We go through the accreditation process every ten years; we are in the middle of one now, which means lots of scurrying about to meet the standards. https://sacscoc.org/about-sacscoc/faqs/.