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Resources on the issue of accreditation

Many writers have contributed to the debate that has formed CER's advocacy platform. In CER's Resources you can read articles and papers by others which offer a strong and diverse background to the ideas that CER advocates. More resources are found in our articles and elsewhere on this website.
Why Accreditation Doesn't Work and What Policymakers Can Do About It (ACTA Policy Paper, July 2007)
Academia's hidden cartel - regional accrediting associations (Thomas D. Koerner)
The coming breakdown of the academic cartel (Gary North, LewRockwell.com)
Coming after U - Why colleges should fear the accrediting cartel (Thomas E. Dillon)
Can College Accreditation Live Up to its Promise? (George C. Leef/Roxana D. Burris, ACTA Report)
The Need for Accreditation Reform (Robert C. Dickeson, U.S. Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education)
Baseball and the Education Cartel (Richard Bishirjian, Free Congress Foundation)
Regional Accreditation Evaluative Criteria and Quality Assurance (William Troutt, The Journal of Higher Education)
The Accreditation Deception (P. Bradley Carey, Institute for Christian Works)
The State of Washington Slaps God in the Face (P. Bradley Carey, Institute for Christian Works)
Trust employers, not the state (Indiana Daily Student)
Voluntary Education and Accreditation (Gary Woods)
Of Doctoral Degrees and Martial Arts (Prof. Rick Walston, Columbia Evangelical Seminary)
Musings about Accreditation (Dr. Kevin Bauder, sharperiron.org)
SACS Peer Review Selection Process (FHEAP)
The need for accreditation reform (Robert C. Dickeson, US Department of Education)
Bill H.R. 5501
Sentinels of the university mantle really are living in an ivory tower (David Lloyd, Sydney Morning Herald)
Lawmakers at Hearing on College Accreditation System call for More Accountability (Richard Morgan, Chronicle of Higher Education)
Florida Higher Education Accountability Project
Education for One's Own Sake (Leonard J. Read, The Freeman)
Bumpkin Bureaucrats (Gene J. Koprowski, Free Republic)
Illinois Bureaucrats: Natural Born Killers (Gene J. Koprowski, Free Republic) - more
Expert Witness on Education: Benton vs. Svejar/Contreras (Donald A. Erickson)
Oregon Settles Federal Lawsuit Filed by Kennedy-Western University; State Officials Will Seek Changes to State Law Regulating the Use of Degrees from Unaccredited Universities (Business Wire)
NSW Department of Education and Training Ends Higher Education in Hypnosis Opportunity (Tracie O'Keefe, HypnosisAustralia)

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Arnold Harris Mathew Center for the Study of the Independent Sacramental Movement

CSISM is the first university center anywhere in the world to be devoted to the study of the independent sacramental movement originating within Catholicism. Visit CSISM here.

Romantic Discoveries Recordings

RDR operates as a research center in association with EAU. Since its inception, RDR has researched unknown piano music of the nineteenth-century and brought it to the public by means of a series of première CD recordings that now encompasses over one hundred works. Visit RDR at its own website here.

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Henselt Library - rare scores of piano music from the nineteenth-century

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