Word: accredits
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...effort to crack down, Bennett proposed in December to make institutions with default rates that are consistently over 20% ineligible for federally backed student loans. Last week he called on Congress to tighten standards for organizations that accredit trade schools, and ban loans to students who lack high school diplomas or equivalency degrees...
...date, however, efforts at self-policing in gospel TV have failed miserably. The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability of Washington monitors the ethical performance of agencies independent of church control and gives them a seal of approval. But its leader, the Rev. Arthur Borden, admits that loss of such accreditation has no impact on an agency. Of the biggest TV evangelists, only Billy Graham, who does not have a weekly series, is a member in good standing. The National Religious Broadcasters, to which most of the big operations belong, is toughening its ethical code and creating a voluntary agency...
Given recent history, the University's concern that such an inflammatory event not turn into a free-for-all is understandable. But simple common sense dictates that the administration come up with a way to accredit non-campus media so that the community-at-large may have access to such interesting campus events...
Vice-Presidential Candidate Salvador Laurel, who issues this warning repeatedly at opposition rallies, is not alone in voicing the fear that Ferdinand Marcos will somehow rig the Feb. 7 elections to ensure his victory. The U.S., equally concerned, has insisted that the Marcos government officially accredit the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL), an independent group that helped prevent widespread fraud in the 1984 parliamentary elections, to monitor the balloting. In addition, President Reagan last week appointed a delegation of lawmakers and private citizens to observe the vote. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, agreed...
Most of the journalists strongly opposed a suggestion that the Defense Secretary accredit in advance all reporters and photographers who cover combat situations. They also objected to a proposal that U.S. citizenship be a requirement for battlefield correspondents representing U.S. news organizations, a rule that might have prevented ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings, a Canadian citizen, from covering the Viet Nam War between...