Reinstate Quality Adult Education Worldwide

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Author: Michael Berns

Started: February 3, 2006, 9:27:14 pm

Target: The New Assets Institute for Higher Learning (NAI) at www.newassets.net

Category: Education

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Petition for Improving the Quality of Adult Higher Education Worldwide On- and Off-Line

We, the undersigned, respectfully request that post-secondary institutions, government officials, employers, and student funding (scholarships, fellowships and grants) bodies disallow accelerated or equivalency degree programs because they provide the student with too-much information in too-brief a period of time or no information whatsoever, respectively:

1. Reinstate the excitement of learning and the thrill of successfully applying new concepts in the workplace for the adult learner by encouraging conventional or self-paced student learning and discouraging student use of accelerated and work equivalency degree programs.

2. Provide practical learning materials that can increase the employee salaries earned and revenues and profits generated by self-employed adult students and, in so doing, improve the financial performance of students' families and, collectively, their community and host country, the latter as measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

3. Lower high and rising MBA costs as well as high and rising college and university tuition and textbook costs, in general, so that all adults worldwide have access to a quality post-secondary education.

4. Encourage independent research into and review of the risks inherent in using the services of those with accelerated or equivalency degrees and, in particular, the risks posed to individual lives and organizational performance.

5. Increase the salaries paid adjunct (part-time) university and college faculty to above the minimum wage of the host country.

6. Discourage and, ideally, stop public and private scholarships and loans as well as employer tuition reimbursements to students taking accelerated or equivalency degree programs and courses from accredited and non-accredited colleges and universities.

7. Urge elected officials to rewrite national and local tax laws to discourage funding of post-secondary institutions offering accelerated or equivalency degree programs.

8. Urge all interested parties to educate others about the risks inherent in accelerated and equivalency degrees and ask family members, friends and colleagues to enroll in conventional or self-paced on- or off-line day, evening and weekend — not accelerated or equivalency — degree or non-degree adult learning programs.

9. Urge local and national elected officials to support the foregoing points worldwide.

This petition corresponds to the Mission Statement of The New Assets Institute for Higher Learning and can be viewed online at: http://www.newassets.net/our_mission.html.