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University Daily Kansan / Friday November 22, 1991
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WASHINGTON — Colleges and universities should determine their own standards for racial and cultural diversity, not a major educational accrediting agency, Education Secretary Lamar Alexander said yesterday.
Education Secretary seeking self-legislated college diversity
The Associated Press
Alexander, in public hearings of the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility, spoke of what he called "the apparent intimidation of quality schools on matters such as diversity."
According to Alexander, the accreditation process has played a crucial role since 1952 in helping to ensure that federal funds for higher education are used for quality education and training. He also said the process needed changes because of the substantial number of accredited institutions with high default rates and attempts to use diversity in determining quality.
Alexander also formally asked the 15-member committee to suggest ways to separate a college's eligibility aid from the accreditation process.
The hearings focused mainly on whether the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools should retain its federal authority to evaluate the quality of colleges and universities. The association includes in its list of criteria how a college manages racial and cultural diversity.
Alexander will make a final decision about the agency's status in January, after receiving recommendations from the advisory committee.
Alexander said it is not a question of
whether diversity is a good thing.
"For me, diversity is more than a good thing. It is what gives America its energy, its uniqueness. It is why we have this constant struggle to forge a common idea from so many ideas and attitudes and so many people from so many different backgrounds."
But he said the individual institutions, not an accrediting agency, had failed.
However, Patricia A. McGuire of Middle States' Commission on Higher Education said racial and cultural diversity are important ingredients in quality education, so it would be wrong to ignore the issue while evaluating colleges and universities.
"Whether a black student, a Hispanic student, or a handicapped student can have full access to and enjoy the benefits of life on a campus is an important issue about quality of education. In our course, students of Trinity College in Washington.
Accredited agencies usually look at the number of books in the library, the degrees held by faculty members, laboratory equipment available to science students and similar factors in securing whether a college should be accredited.
McGuire insisted that Middle States' principles of accreditation were developed by all of the association's 509 member institutions. Diversity is only one criterion, she said.
She said it would be wrong to cave in and eliminate the diversity standard. "I believe informally that my colleagues would join me in that view."
McGuire said it's more likely that
the commission would consider various kinds of procedural safeguards and guarantees to clarify how the diversity principles would be interpreted and applied.
Middle States is one of six regional accrediting agencies and operates in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Last year, Middle States threatened to withhold accreditation of Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York because minority representation of Baruch's faculty was inadequate and the retention rate of minority students was low.
Accreditation later was approved for Baruch, where President Matthew Goldstein has begun implementing an elaborate program to diversify the faculty, staff and curriculum.
Some critics have accused Alexander of stacking the 15-member advisory committee. On Oct. 30, the education secretary appointed five prominent representatives of the academic, business and legal world to the committee.
"I don't know what they all think about the accreditation issue," Alexander said in response to the critics. "So I was going to try and stack it. I have done it more carefully than that."
Alexander selected Trow, a professor in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, as chairman to serve through Sept. 30, 1992.
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