[game_edu] Different kinds of accreditation causing confusion

[Lewis Pulsipher]

You're talking about two very different kinds of accreditation.  Full Sail
is accredited as a trade school, not a standard college, which makes it
plausible that they're expected to have a 70% placement rate, vastly higher
than the typical placement rate of standard colleges.  If they're
specifically teaching a trade, the students ought to succeed in it.  SCAD
and a few others with game-related programs are accredited as standard
colleges and universities.

The standard college accreditors have become "academic Nazis" more
interested in degrees than in knowledge or experience.  In one extreme
example I heard from the college president himself, SACS deemed a person
with a Ph.D. in Zoology not qualified to teach freshman biology--degree not
specifically in biology!  The college let him go rather than contest this
(which doesn't say anything good about the college, does it?).

Full Sail is called a "university" because the state of Florida approved
that name change, it has nothing to do with accreditation.

LP
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