Posted on 10/04/2010 8:14:56 AM PDT by La Lydia
President Obama's Department of Education, where Secretary Arne Duncan appointed a longtime homosexual activist...now is proposing to force colleges and universities to submit to a political agenda, according to critics. Under the proposed federal rule change, institutions of higher education "would be required to have a document of state approval … to operate an educational program, including programs leading to a degree or certificate," explained an analysis by Shapri D. LoMaglio for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.
"I think it is the greatest threat to academic freedom in our lifetime," former Sen. Bill Armstrong, now president of Colorado Christian University, told WND. "But only if you love liberty."
Armstrong is so alarmed over the proposal identified by the federal agency as a rule change regarding "Program Integrity Issues" that he's joined with another former Colorado senator and higher education leader, Hank Brown, in writing a commentary on the subject. Brown was president of the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Colorado...
Armstrong is encouraging members of Congress to look into the measure, since as a proposed "regulation" change, most lawmakers probably haven't even heard of it...
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Maybe it is because Hillsdale actually educates their kids and gives them useful, marketable skills which result in real jobs. Other conservative colleges (all 62 of them) ought to look into doing something similar, maybe even under a coop arrangement.
All tax preparers with be required to be registered with IRS in 2011. There is a big difference between being a member of a professional organization and being licensed by IRS. I will now be working for IRS, not my clients. IRS holds my license and directs the educational seminars and if I step out of line I lose my license and livelihood by decision of a bureaucrat who of course will only be following the rules, which was the standard Nuremberg defense.
I know now how the Jews felt in the 1930’s when they were told to register with the govt.
Heck, I predict that within the next decade we're going to see a very credible effort on the part of a lot of colleges and universities to effectively overthrow the most notable "accrediting body" of all in higher education -- the NCAA.
This will have instant approval:
http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/viewpage.aspx?src=./virtualpress/wolfe/index.html
As far as I can tell, the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) has nothing about this on their website--but I wouldn't expect them to. They are pretty leftwing and seem to be mainly concerned with the freedom of speech of liberal professors at conservative institutions.
America colleges have long been bastions of leftist drivel..
Maybe you have NOT been on an America college/University?..
Harvard, Yale and Princeton are the tip of a larger iceberg..
Conservatives cannot hold positions long there unless they are close mouthed RINOs..
Even then they are merely tolerated not offered tenure..
The Progressives(communists/socialists/enviros) OWN America University's..
I think that they have to go that far is a travesty of justice. This is because the fed said if you take any federal money you have to do what they say. A rational person would see that money as in the form of grants and such, but the fed saw even accepting students financed by federally-backed loans as qualifying. This probably means such schools as Hillsdale can't take any former military who want to use their VA benefits. It's sad, really.
Are you a CPA? If so, I could use a US-based CPA for keeping the books - of overseas companies and investments (where licensing is a non-issue)...
Just saying, there are plenty of ex-pats and diversified folks who can use trustworthy, sharp CPAs and accountants here in the US!
The most challenging job today has to be the Imams protection team.
Do you have a cite for that change? I know a couple of tax preparers who would very interested if they don't already know about it.
the media is dutifully filling up with sob stores about people who racked up $100K student debts attending the Art Institute of South Succotash in order to drive this agenda.
IRS Regulation:
http://www.webcpa.com/news/IRS-Opens-Online-Tax-Preparer-Registration-System-55738-1.html
Sounds very simple but you have to read between the line...........
Education was one field. Others were psychology and sociology. Both fields were relatively open to virtually anything, and the majors were such that even the worst slacker could keep their draft deferment. Of course, the population explosion in those fields led to ‘studies’ which not only concluded that much more extensive studies were needed, but that we also needed people to tell us how to run every aspect of our lives (at ‘government’ expense, of course). Otherwise, the grads would have been employed in another industry which was experiencing an expanding workforce—fast food—which would have led to the reduction of Sociology and psychology departments at universities all over...
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