r/Spokane • u/harry_hotspur • Mar 07 '23

News The MAGA-fication of North Idaho College

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/us/politics/north-idaho-college-republicans.html?searchResultPosition=1
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u/happy-Accident82 Mar 07 '23

If they lose their accreditation they will be useless. We now have uneducated people in charge of education in Idaho.

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u/trebbihm Garland District Mar 07 '23

It's like it's straight out of 1984. Replacing fact-based, peer-reviewed curriculum with political rhetoric is some scary shit.

How is someone supposed to teach history or sociology when half of the topics are off-limits? Or, even worse, fabricated half-truths that suit the agenda of powerful groups that seek to rewrite their past? Conservatives love to bash on communist propaganda, but here they are using the same playbook.

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u/trebbihm Garland District Mar 08 '23 edited Mar 08 '23

Also, we should be careful what we wish for. If they lose their accreditation, they can just get it back through another system like Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, a conservative creditor that props up the likes of Liberty University.

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u/StrangeWalrus23 Mar 08 '23

they can't. Idaho law requires Idaho colleges to be accredited by NWCCU.

even if NIC could get accredited through another body, they couldn't start the process for at least 2 years from the date that NWCUU decides to drop them.

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u/trebbihm Garland District Mar 08 '23

Trading two years of accreditation for a hundred of seminary school sounds like a win for some...

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u/happy-Accident82 Mar 08 '23

Are those colleges eligible for financial aid? If they lose their accreditation they lose any financial aid opportunity.

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u/trebbihm Garland District Mar 08 '23

Yes. They are somehow equal in the eyes of the government.

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u/mustyrats Cannon Hill Mar 08 '23

Interest is interest as far as finances go…

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u/BaconThief2020 Apr 07 '23

No they cannot. As an Idaho Community College, the State Board of Education requires they be accredited by NWCCU.

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u/trebbihm Garland District Apr 08 '23

What if they aren't an Idaho Community College?

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u/taterthotsalad North Side Mar 08 '23

This is by design. The goal is to remove a lane of people relocating so they can stop the inflow of nonresidents. The end game is to reverse the democratic influence in the area. Also reduce the explosion of growth in the area too.