This site is dedicated to raising awareness of our
human interconnectedness in both our schools
and communities. It is strongly urged that we
rethink education from a more unified and
humanitarian learning-centered perspective.

WASC Standards for Accreditation

Western Association of Schools and Colleges — Standards for Accreditation

All About WASC

All About the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)

WASC Home Page

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (Primary School through University Level)

The Senior College Commission

The Senior College Commission (Accredits Senior Colleges and Universities)

WASC Policy on Complaints

WASC Policy on Complaints (College/Univ. Level)

Accreditation for Community and Junior Colleges

The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC)

Policy Outline for Submitting Complaints

Student and Public Complaints Against Institutions

Accreditation for High Schools, Elementary Schools, etc.

The Accrediting Commission for Schools (below the college level)

Looking Ahead with the ACCJC

Project Renewel: Evaluation Plan for the ACCJC

Links to Online Educational Information Resources

WASC's Recommended Educational Information Links

EDUTRUE UPDATE

Spring 2006 finds me still attending SDCCD Continuing Education classes, but without the same zeal and commitment to improving the educational environment itself. My experience here has shown me that faculty and staff are here essentially for the paycheck and so-called career advancement first and foremost. The progressive ideals surrounding a student-centered educational approach found in my essay series and documented correspondence with SDCCD officials are above the radar of those who I have encountered in this college district. Even administrative pseudo-concern and lip service for student empowerment seems to be drying up in the scramble for continued funding and program survival in this era of the shrinking budgetary pie.

Hopefully, this website will continue to be a valuable resource for those with front-line enthusiasm for progressive educational reform. Please share this site with others who are enrolled or employed in an educational environment for the foreseeable future. The reform issues I have raised are likely to remain as long as there is such deep institutional resistance and denial. I will keep my school correspondence and grievance documentation available (page links provided below) as a reference that may serve your own activist activities. Elements of my past struggle may echo in your own struggle today, even though the documented dates (within my correspondence) will of course be much different.

If you want to picture what I am currently doing, picture me in a Photoshop class, looking for ways to create images to further illustrate the ideas I have articulated here on the EDUTRUE website. I feel that I have been several years in the trenches of yet another war. As I convalesce from the ordeal I painstakingly documented, I am embracing an increasingly spiritual curriculum in the School of Life. Life is no idle gift.

Tom Darling

edutrue@lycos.com

EduQuotables and Visions

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. (Robert F. Kennedy)

BE AWARE

Excellence has no fear of observation,
but neither does mediocrity
so long as it can present a
"credible" facade.

When administrators act with impunity
student well-being takes a dive.

THE SPECTRUM OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

Computer technology itself clearly demonstrates that there are many different means and diverse applications which may be tapped to reach agreed upon goals. Our own human diversity is enhanced by exploring technological options with our uniqueness as individuals in mind.

KEEPING LOVE IN THE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LOOP

Musings on Information Technology Use

HOMESCHOOLING OUR HEART ensures that love guides information technology use decisions. When our choices originate from below the heart — institutions are hard-pressed to ensure a degree of civil sanity and become "stressed out" themselves — administrating between and among inevitable conflicts.

Without education occurring at the heart — and higher levels — educational advancement becomes less intuitive and more formulaic — often closely tied to simply where the money is. This contributes to the politicizing of educational trends — leaving love and higher intuition increasingly "out of the loop." With the truest education increasingly co-opted, subverted or marginalized — education as an industry can expand while deeper truths are ignored and real educational community is imperiled.

Does resistance to heartfelt innovation within our institutions persist from our having unlearned love to the point of no return? Too often our hearts are the lonliest educators of all. Our hearts "all-ways" belong in the information technology loop, for in following our heartsong we are more likely to make earth-friendly decisions as well.

We must learn to live life so that our heart maintains a very bright core in it. Through love we can all have a starring role in humanity's continuing education. Information technology (IT), alone, will leave our heart hungry, and our humanity imperiled.

Our hearts do not have a monopoly on love — but they can let us know whether love is in our communication or left out of IT! What IT serves is up to each of us . . . down to the last mouse-click.

"Action is the anecdote for despair —
especially action we all can live with."

DAVID AND GOLIATH

Can a chancellor of a large community college district be responsive to
individual students who address issues and refuse to be brushed off or ignored?

Refer to SDCCD Educational Master Plan (May 2000 update)

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