Illinois bible colleges: "We shouldn't have to follow state standards because bible!"

[dyresand]

I don't see why they are complaining. At the end of my stay here I'll have to take the FE, a licensing exam for engineers. My college has a +90% pass rates for first time test takers. It's also an accredited program. If they let out students who couldn't pass the FE, they would likely lose that accreditation. Same with the law, medical, educational, and other colleges. So why would a college want to be exempted from this? If their law students can't pass the bar, for example, they shouldn't pretend that their law school is accredited or worth a damn.

But a theology or bible degree is crap anyway. I think even from good schools those grads have poor prospects. So let them put out their crap degrees in that if they wish.

Your last paragraph has it about right; they're doling out degrees in theology while engineering what little structure they have to make it appeal specifically to those students who just want the bible stuff and not the book learnin', so they can sell the courses that require the least amount of teaching, structure and oversight to the greatest number of people who wouldn't have high expectations for their education anyway. Aside from the part where they have to demand to be taken seriously regardless of how lackadaisical they're being, it's basically a way to get people to pay for no education.

All in all those degrees are worthless...