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At its June 2005 meeting, the AALE Board of Trustees approved the
director for higher education’s request to experiment with allowing
non-baccalaureate liberal arts colleges, baccalaureate- granting
online liberal arts colleges, and liberal arts oriented graduate
programs and schools to apply for Institutional Accreditation and
Preaccreditation. AALE believes that experience gained in carrying
out its Learning Anytime Anywhere
Partnerships (LAAP), conducted in conjunction with the US
Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education (FIPSE), the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation, will enable the Academy to apply
standards to these growing areas of Higher Education that are
closely patterned on its standards for four year institutions.
The Academy
welcomes and encourages interested persons or institutions to
comment on this project. |
