Possible Future DEAC University

[Johann]

I understand that there's a waiting period with all accreditations, but to come out and reject any accreditation just looks bad. I understand what they want to do and are trying to achieve, but they need to play nicely with the system in order to last. Who wants a degree from a place that's completely unaccredited? They have no standards to follow. They could get you a BA in business without you ever taking an accounting course, human resources, finance, business law, math, management, etc. It kind of reminds me the South Harmon Institute of Technology. I hope their offices aren't in an old mental health hospital. 

This school is in Hawaii. That state allows unaccredited schools to operate forever, provided they observe consumer protection rules re: refunds etc and don't do fraudulent things like issue degrees in 30 days etc. There have to be real courses etc. but there is nothing that could really be called academic oversight.

With their aversion to accreditation, including stated reluctance to change their curriculum or add courses etc - Hawaii is probably the right place for them. Within the rules, they can operate unaccredited, on their own terms, forever - and I think they likely will, for as long as they can make it work, financially. I just hope they don't get some meaningless third-party so-called 'accreditor' to sell them a seal of approval which means NOTHING in US. That's been done by a number of schools, lately. 

As long as they don't resort to meaningless, non-US recognized, so-called "accreditation" - good luck to them, I guess. What else can I say?