 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
CONDITIONS FOR THE ACCREDITING OF SCHOOLS.
A school desiring to be placed on the accredited list of the university
should apply to the Chairman of the Committee on Accredited Schools.
In response to the application, a blank form inquiring into the course of
study, faculty, etc., of the school will be sent to the principal. Upon
the return of this blank, properly filled out, a representative of the
university will be sent to inspect the school. If his report is favorable
and the Committee concurs, the school will be accepted and the principal
duly notified. The name of the school will be entered upon the list of
accredited schools and published in the catalogue of the university.
No school will be placed upon the list in which the course of study
covers less than four years of high school work based upon at least seven
years of competent elementary instruction.
Each school must offer at least sixteen units of high school instruction
as defined in the entrance requirements of the University of Virginia
in the current number of the catalogue. A unit consists of thirty-six
weeks of instruction in one subject, in which there are five recitations
of forty minutes each per week. These sixteen units must include the
first three units of English, the first three in mathematics, and one unit
of history as outlined. Students wishing to pursue the study of Latin
at the university must offer four units of Latin for entrance.
The university will not consider any high school in which the teaching
force consists of less than two teachers devoting their entire time
to high school instruction. It is strongly in favor of requiring the entire
time of not less than three teachers. All high school teachers should
possess college training and preference will be given to those schools in
which the teachers are college graduates.
The number of daily recitation periods given by one teacher should
not exceed eight. The university advises six. The number of daily
recitation periods of one student should not exceed five.
The quality of the instruction, the general intellectual and moral tone
of the school, the efficiency of the equipment and the character of the
text-books used are paramount factors, and a representative of the
university must report satisfactorily upon those points before a school
shall be accredited.
The laboratory and library facilities should be adequate to the needs
of the instruction in the subjects for which credit is asked.
Each accredited school is required to report to the Committee on
Accedited Schools when requested to do so. Any failure so to report
will be considered cause for removal from the list.
The principal is required to forward to the dean of the university,
upon a blank to be supplied upon request, a list of subjects in which
each student entering the university from said school is properly prepared.
The university reserves the right to cease to accredit at any time
any school that employs inefficient teachers or fails to maintain the
standard mentioned herein.
High schools which do not fulfill all the requirements for a fully
accredited school, but which offer at least twelve units, may be partially
accredited, upon those subjects which have been approved by the committee.
Graduates of such schools will be credited with the twelve
approved units and will be required to stand entrance examinations upon
the other units.
| University of Virginia record February, 1911 | |