Revans University

[A-N]

As of Feb. 21' 05 Revans University is no longer accredited by DETC.
http://www.detc.org/degree.html#REV

This is their new claim:
http://www.revans-university.edu/html/catalog/accred.asp

What would happen to students in the system who are still to graduate ( after Feb. 2005 ) from Revans, would their degrees be unaccredited?

[Hawk]

As of Feb. 21' 05 Revans University is no longer accredited by DETC.
http://www.detc.org/degree.html#REV

This is their new claim:
http://www.revans-university.edu/html/catalog/accred.asp

What would happen to students in the system who are still to graduate ( after Feb. 2005 ) from Revans, would their degrees be unaccredited?


Interesting find. What is the Standing Commission for Workplace Action Learning? Is that legit?

I wonder what happened that the DETC discontinued accreditation.

[A-N]

Interesting find. What is the Standing Commission for Workplace Action Learning? Is that legit?

I don't know and I'm not sure if it's legitimate or not, if is it an agency recognized by USDOE then it will certainly be recognized.

I wonder what happened that the DETC discontinued accreditation.

Again I don't know, the Canadian School of Management was accredited by the DETC too and they had some sort of agreement with Revans whereby CSM graduates could transfer credits towards Revans degree programs.
It's all a little confusing now, maybe there will be news about it in the near future.

[Hawk]

Thanks A-N.

[A-N]

Thanks A-N.

You are welcome.

[Dennis Ruhl]

The Canadian School of Management resigned from or otherwise lost their DETC accreditation in December. I would assume it was a lack of students that prevented continued viable operation.

International Management Centres of Buckingham, England also lost their accreditation at the same time as Revans.

I believe the three schools had common ownership. IMC and CSM had a long independent history. I am not sure about IMC, but CSM lacked degree granting authority. Instead of bachelors and masters degrees they granted graduate and fellow designations. They also offered the opportunity to convert the designations into degrees from different unaccredited universities, starting with Northland Open University in Canada and later with American state licensed schools that they set up.

At some point in the 1990s CSM was purchased by IMC, possibly by assumption of liabilities. They then set up the University of Action Learning, later named Revans University.

CSM had been accredited by DETC in the early 1990s but later lost it only to regain it in the late 1990s as part of the IMC triumvirate.

I have a Certificate in Organization Management from CSM for completing 8 MBA level courses under the pre IMC regime. 8 courses from CSM were then accepted by City University of Bellevue, Washington toward their MBA. After a break of several years, I returned to CSM under the IMC regime, enrolled in one course and then quit.

Whatever action learning was, it wasn't for me. The point seemed to be to write papers about yourself and your job as part of applying course material. I just didn't get it. Also, they introduced a thesis which is probably the death knell of part-time business programs.

The original 8 courses I took were excellent. They were strictly graded and some were offered by very fine full time professors at the University of Toronto or York University. It was no easy ride and demanded real knowledge and analysis of the course material. It was the only part-time program that I have been in that a professor, who was also a prof at the U of Toronto, wrote the text book. A student also actually got to phone the professor at certain times and discuss the course. The profs listed in the catalog were the ones you actually dealt with. In later years, the quality of the instructors seemed to decline.

So now the Canadian School of Management is gone and IMC and Revans are unaccredited. A sad day for distance education.

[A-N]

Thanks Dennis, that certainly made things clearer.

[Dennis Ruhl]

More:

http://www.i-m-c.org/imcass/VUs/IMC/frames.htm