Candidacy Advocates Misleading Statements

Proposed benefits turn to ashes

(From MS Office WORD graphics)

SF Gate reported colleges in candidacy status are not eligible for student financial aid for at least two years after losing accreditation.  Credits earned during candidacy are valid only within a particular time frame. This refutes two major benefits ACCJC commissioners touted in their Sunday SF Gate op ed.


Nanette Asimov, SF Gate education writer reported:

• No California college can receive state funding without accreditation said a California Community College spokesperson

• A two year gap (minimum) is required before federal financial aid can be resumed said a U.S. Department of education source.

•  2016 would be the earliest CCSF could reapply for accreditation after candidacy, and credits earned during candidacy aren't transferable until re-acreditation.

What's going on inside ACCJC?

It remains a mystery how two ACCJC commissioners could make such fantastic claims without vetting their most conciliatory sounding promises.  This demonstrates either a lack of internal control within the ACCJC to control their own members and/or very sloppy work.  Sadly, both undermine ACCJC's legitimacy as a public (sic) regulatory body. 

I imagine the ACCJC inner circle rolling their eyes at the public back tracking their two commissioners have forced them into.