{"id":6059,"date":"2004-04-08T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/wresting-on-acc\/"},"modified":"2004-04-08T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T22:10:27","slug":"wresting-on-acc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/wresting-on-acc\/","title":{"rendered":"(W)resting on Accreditation Pillars"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>I&#8217;m beginning to understand the accreditation process as an exercise in<br \/>\nabstraction.&nbsp; We take our best, most descriptive account of the<br \/>\ninstitution&#8217;s functions and mold them rhetorically until they match the<br \/>\naccreditation pillars.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not a process to be taken lightly.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAbstracting is complicated.&nbsp; Often it involves collaborative writing<br \/>\nefforts, slippery language and raptures of statistical data.&nbsp; When the<br \/>\nbean-counts start whirring around, I&#8217;m out. Abstracting to verbiage is one<br \/>\nthing; matching imaginative institutional narratives to numbers and bar charts<br \/>\nis much less appealing.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s never merely a project of abstracting<br \/>\nuntil the accreditation criteria match; it&#8217;s followed by an adaptive unraveling,<br \/>\na denouement, maybe, through which the institution is reinvented into an<br \/>\nimproved replica of its pre-accreditation body. This part takes years, and it&#8217;s<br \/>\na road afflicted by hills, curves, chasms.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked twice in recent weeks to serve on various accreditation<br \/>\ncommittees: one for the division of online learning (DOL) and one for the<br \/>\nsomething else I can&#8217;t describe exactly (partly because I haven&#8217;t heard about it<br \/>\nin a few days and it was a passing conversation).&nbsp; The division of online<br \/>\nlearning is abstracting itself toward &quot;accreditation pillars,&quot; but I&#8217;m<br \/>\nhaving trouble discerning what, exactly, accreditation pillars <i>are<\/i>. And<br \/>\nthis explains why I really should be picked last for accreditation teams.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI find the abstraction and return to be wrenching&#8211;incredibly<br \/>\nmind-bending.&nbsp; Pillars: I venture that they&#8217;re evaluative criteria; they&#8217;re<br \/>\nthe abstract terms we aspire toward.&nbsp; Explain how we meet them and we<br \/>\neffectively prove the structure of the Acropolis that is our<br \/>\nUniversity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The division of online learning is handling much of their interchange in the<br \/>\n*new* CMS platform&#8211;eCollege.&nbsp; It&#8217;s too early for me to have a critical<br \/>\nrelationship to the interface.&nbsp; I find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chlt.org\/~gwilliams\/2004spring\/c18\/\" >George<br \/>\nWilliams&#8217; adaptation<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chlt.org\/~gwilliams\/teaching\/archives\/000851.php\">Palimpsest<\/a>)<br \/>\nof <a href=\"http:\/\/mamamusings.net\/archives\/2004\/01\/06\/mt_courseware_stepbystep.php\" >Liz<br \/>\nLawley&#8217;s MT courseware<\/a> much more attractive.&nbsp; The MT design is<br \/>\nfriendlier than anything I&#8217;ve seen in VCampus or, in these few days, eCollege.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI look forward to trying it out, perhaps in the fall since it won&#8217;t be used<br \/>\nwhere I&#8217;m teaching now any time soon.&nbsp; One of our holdups on the DOL<br \/>\ncommittee has been the lack of an explicit institutional stance on IP.&nbsp; I<br \/>\nkeep pointing toward Creative Commons as the smart, responsible solution&#8211;for<br \/>\nUniversity-wide content, including the stuff coming out of DOL.&nbsp; That it&#8217;s<br \/>\nan incredibly hard sell affirms the power of corporatization and privatization to reduce such ideas to granules.<\/p>\n<p>So, in fairness, I need to peel the sign off my back that reads, &quot;Will<br \/>\ngladly serve on your accreditation committee.&quot;&nbsp; It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m<br \/>\nungrateful, rather that I really struggle with the wiggles toward abstracting<br \/>\nthe institution.&nbsp; Something to work on: *learn to say &#8216;no&#8217; politely.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>I&#8217;m beginning to understand the accreditation process as an exercise in abstraction.&nbsp; We take our best, most descriptive account of the institution&#8217;s functions and mold them rhetorically until they match the accreditation pillars.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not a process to be taken lightly.&nbsp; Abstracting is complicated.&nbsp; Often it involves collaborative writing efforts, slippery language and raptures of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[197,129,198],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distances","tag-accreditation","tag-distance","tag-online"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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