Posted on 07/25/2022 11:45:24 AM PDT by karpov
Just over one year ago, Cairn University, a small, private, Christian school in southeastern Pennsylvania, made a strategic institutional decision to eliminate its School of Social Work and all related degrees and programs, thus bringing to an end a 50-plus-year run. Closing what was a pioneering program with a long history and a sound reputation was not an easy decision, but it was a clear one. The Board of Trustees approved a recommendation from the administration to close the school based upon multiple factors. Among these were declining enrollment and an associated and growing disparity between revenue and expenses.
Also among the factors, however, were issues related to the program’s accrediting body, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). These issues concerned both CSWE’s specific requirements, standards, and criteria, and its trajectory on social and cultural issues. The university considered these measures to be an example of accreditation overreach and deemed CSWE’s requirements incompatible with the school’s religious and theological commitments.
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Now I know why wokeness is creeping into all sorts of disciplines. No school will be able to escape it.
This is a bad thing? Social work programs are a joke, along with all the other “studies” majors.
“accrediting body”
= rent seeking.
Social “science” degrees are anything but. It is pseudoscience. The vast majority of published results can’t be replicated.
Every crazy theory from open marriage to CRT has been a destructive fraud. These are the charlatans that study rats to figure out how humans behave. Lots of good grants though.
You mean that degree I wanted to get with a major in Sub-saharan, nubian lesbian basket weaving with a minor in intricuite braiding and how it relates to the cost of tea in China isn’t something I can use to make major dollars in the workplace???
Any day the handmade basket market is going to take off. You still have hope.
“Your chances are one in a million”
Lloyd: So I still have a chance..
For those who don’t know, over a hundred years ago, Cairn University used to be the BIBLE INSTITUTE OF PENNSYLVANIA and then later, the PHILADELPHIA BIBLE INSTITUTE. The school changed its name to Cairn University later. It’s still a private Christian University where a Biblical Worldview is taught.
Sounds like its remaining students have a much better chance of getting a non-barista job when they graduate.
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