Association of Independent Colleges and Schools 1983 Directory of Educational Institutions Accredited by The Accrediting Commission of the Association of Independent Colleges and Schools JUCS M 0 0 • * This Directory lists the accredited status of institutions as of January 31,1983 The Accrediting Commission of the Association of Independent Colleges and Schools 1730 M Street, N.W., Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20036 Telephone (202) 659-2460 MEMBERS OF THE ITING COMMISSION Chairman Stephen J. Jerome President Robert S. Kline Monroe Business Institute Professor of Business Administration Bronx, New York and Business Education Winthrop College Donald C. Jones Rock Hill, South Carolina President Chairman, Council on Colleges Tampa College Tampa, Florida Dexter Rohm Dean Robert F. Oliver Davenport College Attorney at Law Kalamazoo, Michigan Clarkesville, Georgia Chairman, Council on Schools George J. Pet rei lo F. Jack Henderson Dean President School of Business and Administration Branell Women's College and Professor of Management Atlanta, Georgia St. Mary's University San Antonio, Texas Chairman, Council on Research and Service Warren T. Schimmel John T. South III Vice President of Academic Affairs Berkeley School President Ridgewood, New Jersey Draughons Junior College Savannah, Georgia Bettye L. Smith President Past Chairman Alaska Business College Howard S. Steed Anchorage, Alaska President Rutledge College Donald H. Waldbauer Atlanta, Georgia President Western Business College Commissioners Portland, Oregon M. Lee Goddard Professor of Business Education Mary L. Williams Bowling Green State University Director Bowling Green, Ohio Adèlphi Institute Phoenix, Arizona Austin J. Harris Chairman of the Board James M. Phillips Mansfield Business College Executive Director Mansfield, Ohio Accrediting Commission BOARD OF OF THE ASSOCIATION Chairman of the Board Robert S. Kline Winthrop College Frank Paone Rock Hill, South Carolina Detroit College of Business Dearborn, Michigan Mary Ann Lawlor Drake Business School Chairman-Elect Flushing, New York Charles E. Palmer Dexter Rohm Strayer College Davenport College Washington, DC Kalamazoo, Michigan Jules Rosenblatt Past Chairman Sawyer Business School John A. Yena Anaheim, California Johnson and Wales College David Shefrin Providence, Rhode Island Computer Processing Institute East Hartford, Connecticut Treasurer Harry V. Weber John T. South III Draughons Junior College Spencerian College Savannah, Georgia Louisville, Kentucky Howard S. Steed Rutledge College Directors Atlanta, Georgia F. Jack Henderson Branell Women's College Stephen B. Friedheim Atlanta, Georgia President, AICS INTRODUCTION This Directory is published annually to provide to all interested parties information on more than 570 institutions accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Independent Colleges and Schools. The reader will find for each institution the name, address, telephone number, chief administrator, academic programs offered, founding date of the school, year of the next scheduled review by the Accrediting Commission, address of all branch cam- puses approved for inclusion in the institutional grant of accredita- tion and other accreditations, if applicable. The information about programs offered was provided by the schools themselves and is subject to change. For additional specific information such as tuition, enrollment policies, other non-main campus educational activities, and dormitory facilities, readers should contact the schools or branches in which they might be inter- ested. A tear-out form has been provided in the back of the Directory to facilitate such correspondence. Another tear-out form also is provided for ease of requesting career information from the Washing- ton office. The goal-oriented student, whether seeking a degree in business or specialized career education of shorter duration, has access to a wide variety of educational programs offered by these institutions. The fact that all of these institutions are accredited does not connote stan- dardization (see section on "The Accrediting Process"). While all the programs have a common objective of career train- ing, and all meet acceptable levels of educational quality as verified by accreditation, they may differ in specifics from institution to institution and from region to region of the country. Acopy ofthis Directory is free upon request to educators, guidance counselors, admissions personnel, prospective students, and parents. Also available is the publication, Accreditation Standards: Policies, Procedures, and Criteria, which relates in detail how an institution becomes eligible and is evaluated for accreditation. James M. Phillips Executive Director iii THE ACCREDITING PROCESS Some of the institutions listed in this directory have been operating for more than one hundred years. As with many good business enterprises, some have been in the same family for three and four generations. Others are relatively new. But career education has been a hallmark of postsecondary education in this country since the country's beginning. Institutional voluntary accreditation can be traced to the last quarter of the 19th century. It sprang from the uneven preparedness of students from high schools seeking admission to institutions of higher education. To that time there were no commonly accepted academic standards for high school graduation nor admissions requirements for studying beyond high school. Groups of institutions began to form themselves into regional associations of colleges and universities and to agree on what would be commonly accepted competencies of students entering those institutions. As more and more colleges sought to be members of the regional associations, the associations soon had to develop standards for admittance of additional colleges to the peer group. These standards of admittance ultimately grew into the accrediting standards against which institutions were to be measured by peers. Business schools also had their associations—state, regional, and national — and generally subscribed to a business code of ethics in the operation of these schools. In 1952, three of these groups formed the Accrediting Commission for Business Schools, the first autonomous national body with sole responsibility to accredit,where warranted, institutions in the field of business education repre- sented by independent schools of business. From that beginning nearly thirty years ago evolved the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Indepen- dent Colleges and Schools. The Commission remains an autonomous body for conducting the evaluation of institutions and rendering decisions concerning the extent to which they have complied and are complying with a formal set of standards, procedures, and criteria. In 1956, and under provisions of Public Law 82-550, the Accrediting Com- mission was evaluated and recognized by the Department of Education (then Office of Education) as meeting the criteria for being a reliable authority as to the quality of training students were receiving in the institutions accredited by it. The Accrediting Commission also is recognized as the appropriate body in its field by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA) and has been since the founding of that nongovernmental coordinator of all accreditation in 1975. The Accrediting Commission is one of thirteen such institutional accrediting bodies (including the regional accrediting commissions) so recognized by COPA. An institution that wishes to be considered for accreditation by the Accredit- ing Commission of AICS must be predominantly organized to train students at the postsecondary level for business careers in industry, government, or the professions. It must have one residence program of at least one academic year in length and must have been in continuous operation as an institution for at least two years. It also must have an enrollment large enough to support regularly scheduled class and laboratory work, and must be legally organized and au- thorized to conduct its program under the laws of its own state and community. If the institution awards degrees, it must have appropriate educational state authority to do so. iv Institutions become accredited by formal action of the Commission, which bases such action on institutional self-studies and the reports of specially ap- pointed evaluation teams that visit the institutions and appraise them according to standards established by the Commission. The standards are both qualitative and quantitative, and are of such a nature that they can be adapted to appraise any of the various types of educational institutions served by the Commission. Three categories of institutions are evaluated for accreditation. They are busi- ness and specialized schools, junior colleges, and senior colleges. A business or specialized school usually offers educational activities with only an occupational objective. It may state its objectives in terms of vocational competence, set goals for completion of courses, or emphasize placement as the educational objective. It may operate either on a clock-hour or cred it-hour basis so long as it measures achievement in academically acceptable modes. A business or specialized school is not precluded from offering college-level programs and may also offer adult and continuing education programs. A junior college is a two-year collegiate institution devoted predominantly or substan- tially to education for business at the collegiate level, and a senior college is devoted