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[email protected]. Nice Returning New Blood Partly sunny Eastern students find Beth Perine named and cooler, high moving in a challenge. new softball coach. near72. Page _5 Page 16 College to maintain national accreditation By STUART TART success in job placement, said Editor in chief Ron Leathers, assistant dean of the College of Teacher Educa- As they return for fall classes, tion. students in Eastern 's College of Leathers pointed out that the Teacher Education no longer college's participation in the have to worry about whether or accreditation process does not not they'll graduate from a have a significant effect on how nationally accredited program. its graduates compete for jobs. The college has maintained its "It is not a requirement for accreditation from a national teachers to get jobs," he said. organization for another five Only about 500 teacher train years despite initial fears last ? ing institutions out of more than spring that the college had not 1,100 nationwide are accredited met new accreditation standards. by NCATE, he added, and only The National Council for 21 of 54 institutions in Illinois Accreditation of Teacher Edu- are accredited by the organiza cation announced its decision to tion.