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July 2016[edit]

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I fixed the citation. Bcf1291 (talk) 05:09, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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ACICS[edit]

Hello, it seems you jumped the gun on makring ACICS-accredited institutions as unaccredited. As per ^[1], "ACICS plans to appeal the decision, the company said in a statement. It will have 30 days to file the appeal, during which it would retain its federal status." jfeise (talk) 21:02, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools 1956/2013/S2016 Scope of recognition: the accreditation of private postsecondary institutions offering certificates or diplomas, and postsecondary institutions offering associate, bachelor's, or master's degrees in programs designed to educate students for professional, technical, or occupational careers, including those that offer those programs via distance education.

That is orthogonal to ACICS being a recognized accreditor. They can't accredit doctorates, but as of this time, they are still a recognized accreditor. DoE revoked their recognition, but they can appeal, and according to the US News article, during the 30 days they have to file an appeal, they retain their status as recognized accreditation agency. I am pretty certain they also keep their status while the appeal is pending, because that's how these things work. And even if an appeal is denied, they can probably still sue. The principles of Due process apply to everybody, including ACICS. jfeise (talk) 22:17, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ACICS-"accredited" schools cannot claim to offer doctorates, so remove all mention of doctoral degrees from those schools!

As I said, that is a different issue. They can't accredit doctorates, but they at this point still can accredit Bachelors and Masters. I am fine with removing the stuff about doctorates, but please do not remove the fact that ACICS is a recognized accreditor, until the DoE decision is final. jfeise (talk) 22:25, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016[edit]

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Your recent edits[edit]

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April 2017[edit]

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I correctly cited my source. However, you stated that the source was unreliable despite being reputable. Can you explain?

I don't know what you're talking about here, but overall, you're on the right track now with citing your changes, and I hope you do this on all the colleges affected because, simply, it is required by policy. However, reverting me before adding the cites is poor form, as my reverts were entirely proper. You should have re-done the edits with the cites rather than reverting first. I am only trying to make sure that content in articles I watch is properly written and verifiable. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 16:50, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I will cite before reverting from now on.

Regarding my first comment, you stated: "Cite links to "Page not found" -- still effectively uncited -- this MUST be cited from a reliable source."

You suggested that the link did not work, but I checked that it did.

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Sept. 2017[edit]

Hello, Bcf1291, I have noticed that you have undone several changes on several school pages regarding ACICS accreditation. I was curious as to why you continue to do this. For example, there were changes made to the page for Texas Health and Science University regarding accreditation that had citations, etc... and you immediately deleted them and reverted them back to the way they were before. However, if you had looked at the revisions, you would have seen that the revisions made still included your notation about ACICS accreditation, but it also included updated information that Texas Health and Science University is one of the 199 schools that are in the process of changing accreditation and are, in fact, in compliance with Dept. of Ed. regulations. ^[2]Updates on ACICS Accredited Colleges

Thanks texasliberallibrarian Texasliberallibrarian (talk) 18:50, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Yes, I see that the revisions retained ACICS accreditation, but I see some grammatical errors. It is easier to revert than correct each line.

Bcf1291 (talk) 04:07, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced changes[edit]

Please stop adding unsourced changes. Wikipedia requires sources in order to verify the validity of article contents. In numerous cases, you have changed the accreditation status of schools and colleges without providing a source for the change, and have even left the source behind which states the opposite of your change. Continued changes like these are disruptive, and leave the affected articles in an invalid state. I left a couple of links on my response to your question on my page - but I will add them here as well. Please read WP:V and WP:RS. Thank you. Scr★pIron^IV 18:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are not understanding the meaning of the source, and there is no discrepancy in the source. Please read the entire link before reverting:

https://www.ed.gov/acics

Bcf1291 (talk) 18:06, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point, and acknowledge my error. Thank you for pointing it out to me. On a side note, please do not paste walls of copied text to a user's talk page. Wikipedia uses diffs for that, and it causes quite a bit of clutter on a talk page. Second, please learn how to indent your comments for threaded discussion by using colons. Have a nice day :-) Scr★pIron^IV 18:22, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Carnegie classifications aren't rankings[edit]

Please stop trying to describe the Carnegie classifications as rankings; it's a taxonomy. The document that I linked on my User Talk page explicitly addresses this misconception. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 04:09, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2019[edit]

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Your recent edits: U. Miami[edit]

I noticed that you deleted data on 2019 accepted students. But you gave us no explanation as to why you did that. I saw nothing wrong with the language you deleted. Therefore, I reverted your change. As a courtesy to the rest of us, when you delete language that someone else wrote and don't replace it with something better, you should at least tell us why you had a problem with the original wording. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 13:12, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted student data is more inflated than enrolled data, since high-achieving students may choose higher-ranking universities. The Common Data Set (CDS) does not report accepted student SAT/ACT test scores that are known to be marketing material for interested high school students. Please delete accepted data and do not replace it with any information. What do you think? Bcf1291 (talk) 06:11, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttp://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/education-department-strips-authority-of-acics-the-largest-for-profit-college-accreditor

[2] ttps://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/06/06/update-moves-acics-accredited-colleges

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