Ashford University (AU)

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In 2003, Mount St. Clare College transformed its name to The Franciscan University. In the meantime, the college got approbation to offer its first graduate degree on the web. In September 2004, the school altered its name to The Franciscan University of the Prairies keeping in mind the end goal to keep away from perplexity with correspondingly named schools.

After a time of money related trouble, the University was acquired by Bridgepoint Education in March 2005. After the fulfillment of the deal, the foundation's name was changed to Ashford University which was sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis finished.

In spite of the fact that the college was territorially licensed by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, it looked for provincial accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in 2010.In June 2012, WASC denied starting accreditation to Ashford University.  

Because of accreditation concerns, the school's trustees designated Richard Pattenaude as president in October 2012 which is a previous chancellor of the University of Maine System who additionally served as director of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, a provincial certifying body. Although its starting application toward the Western Association of Schools and Colleges was declined in 2010, which second application had been recognized in 2013.

As indicated by U.S. Senate affirmation by Arlie Willems, resigned commentator for the Iowa Department of Education lavished with Ashford University's solicitation in 2006 to offer an online Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in light of the fact that the project "was more a gathering of discrete courses than an iron system, was understaffed for suitable association with understudies and supervision of both courses and clinical encounters, including understudy instructing. Numerous employees needed proper scholastic foundation and/or encounters for their allocated obligations. The most genuine concern noted by the group was the absence of obligation from the project in giving quality clinical encounters, the part of instructor planning considered the most essential by readiness programs in Iowa.

Willems likewise affirmed that Ashford went into organization with Rio Salado Community College though instruction courses from the Ashford BA in Social Science with a Concentration in Education could apply to Rio Salado's post-baccalaureate instructor training system. When understudies have finished the online Ashford BA and the online Rio Salado educator training project, they are qualified for an Arizona instructing permit. Willem's prominent that this association could be seen as an imaginative approach to tackle an issue keeping in mind the end goal to keep drawing understudies, or it could be seen as an approach to go around the responsibility framework for quality so as to keep gathering educational cost from understudies. A person who has achieved an Arizona permit thusly does not naturally get an Iowa permit in light of the fact that Iowa and Arizona don't have a correspondence understanding.

As indicated by Willems, protests from Ashford understudies concerning this understanding and licensure include:

1) Individuals from Iowa and numerous different states had finished Ashford's online Bachelor of Arts in Social Science with a Concentration in Education. These people had been persuaded, endless supply of this system, they would be qualified for a permit in their home state in light of the fact that Ashford has a state-sanction instructor instruction program (the on-ground undergrad program).

2) Individuals were understudies or alumni of the Ashford online baccalaureate program, however were not mindful of the need to finish the Rio Salado program too to get an Arizona permit. These people were not in any case mindful of the Rio Salado association.

3) Ashford understudies were meaning to finish understudy educating through Rio Salado College and accepted they would then naturally be qualified for an Iowa instructing permit.

4) Students were finishing an online degree through Ashford in right on time youth accepted that this degree would prompt an Iowa instructing permit.