[CALIBK12] Accredited school library media programs in CA

[Blanche Woolls]

Tom Kaun asked one question, why AASL had listed only two programs in 
California. If they were listing ALA accredited programs, there are only 
two, UCLA and SJSU. Berkeley gave up its accreditation some years ago.

What is a bit of a mystery with the AASL list is that NCATE accredits 
school library media credential programs within Schools/Colleges of 
Education. I'd be really surprised to learn that we don't have more 
schools with NCATE accreditation and this process is monitored by AASL who 
has members on the national committee to approve NCATE guidelines.

Blanche

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Thomas Nixon wrote:

> Often the reasoning for lack of specialized accreditation is related to
> outside-the-classroom issues (number of faculty members, educational level of faculty
> members, etc.). Most library media programs are fairly small. That makes it difficult
> to support the sort of program that would be able to become ALA-accredited.
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> Tom Nixon
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> ______________________________________________________________________________________
> From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of
> Thomas Kaun [tomkaun at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:37 PM
> To: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu
> Subject: [CALIBK12] Accredited school library media programs in CA
> 
> I was surprised to see no California school library media programs listed in the
> AASL-approved list in the digital supplement to American Libraries.
> <http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4696d0a9#/4696d0a9/26>
> Only two California universities have ALA-accredited programs for the MLS, San Jose
> and UCLA. <http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4696d0a9#/4696d0a9/24>
> What gives?
> Tom
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> Thomas T. Kaun
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