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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 affiliated 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, and in this Bulletin.
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
Accredited 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.