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[Dill]

(05-21-2019, 03:20 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Does it matter to either of you that the University in question is a Private Institution?

If it claims to be a university, and a non-profit one at that, then no.

When universities are accredited, the question is what and how they will teach.

Bpat has alluded to the history of universities. In the late 19th early 20th century, research universities were legally detached from the kind of corporate/military style control you are projecting into them now--even private universities.

If private universities like Stanford and Vanderbilt wanted to be real universities, then they had to get their own "employers" under control and out of the business of deciding for faculty what they should teach and how they should behave.  Since WWII, that has extended to professors' (and students') freedom to protest as well.

Some private religious schools still think of professors as employees on the early 19th-century model, when professors at denominational colleges were required to meet religious tests, discouraged from research, their private lives subject to scrutiny, and given no "academic freedom." But those institutions pay a price in their rankings. They are universities at best in the pre-research, Medieval sense of the term.