Remember those warning levels during the peak of terrorism paranoia where we would go from the green, to orange then finally to red levels and everyone was worried when the color changed? Well EC is experience one of those warning levels on a lesser scale as it faces going below the warning level for accreditation.
Accreditation refers to the fact that our school has met a certain set of requirements as far as academic excellence in curriculum, programs, and facilities go.
Despite numerous changes in course and class curriculum has not done that and be faced with going below the warning level of accreditation if this happens, it would mean EC will be closer to losing accreditation.
Can one imagine what being below the warning level will mean for this college? It would be the same thing that happened to Compton College when it lost its accreditation. That would not be a good thing for EC. Combined with the rising cost of tuition and budget cuts, this coud be bad.
Losing accreditation will only compound the problems that EC is already facing. Lost of accreditation could also result in decrease student enrollment.
We are not doing enough, according to the people who judge EC.
This is why the warning label maybe nothing more than a scare tactic to force more unnecessary change on EC.
If EC is once again put on the warning level or beneath it, the college should begin questioning the board’s motives. If the college continually does what the accreditation committee is asking to do and yet is still not good enough for the accreditation committee then it is probably time for EC to fight back.
EC should say that they have done all that they have been asked to do through the years and yet, it is not good enough.
Our Accreditation Task Force has done everything from re-doing course outlines and schedules to assessing the EC budget but yet even for all that, it means nothing to the accreditation committee.
It seems that the campus has done everything to appease a committee that keeps putting us in the same corner every few years.
There are a few things that EC could do to make the course curriculum better, and that is to add more sections to classes that are needed or classes that are less known but well liked.
EC could even allow classes to be more flexible.
As the accreditation committee keeps showing time and time again that apparently what EC is doing is not enough for them.
By dangling the “warning” label over our heads the accreditation committee is using a scare tactic and EC should not stand for it anymore.