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How would you start your own accredited university?

How would you start your own accredited university?

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Madhav Prasad Koirala
Independent Researcher
Alexander Ohnemus Establishing a recognized university is a big undertaking that needs careful preparation, a lot of money, and compliance with a lot of legal and educational requirements. Here's a rough rundown of actions you could do:
Planning and Research: Find out as much as you can about the legal requirements and restrictions that apply to starting a university in your nation or area.
Determine your university's specialty or focus. Think about things like competitors, academic programs, target demographics, and location.
Create a Business Strategy:
Obtain Certification: Recognize the requirements and the accreditation process in your area.
Create educational initiatives that adhere to accrediting requirements and criteria.
Compile documentation and submit it for review by accrediting bodies.
Safe Finance: Investigate your possibilities for finance, including grants, loans, investments, and gifts.
Think about forming alliances with businesses, governmental bodies, or charitable institutions.
Create a long-term financial plan to sustain the operations and expansion of the university.
Create the Infrastructure: Purchase or rent appropriate spaces for offices, labs, schools, libraries, and other necessities.
Invest in academic materials, internet access, and IT systems as well as other technology infrastructure.
Hire competent instructors and personnel to assist with administrative and academic tasks.
Create Academic Initiatives: Create a wide variety of courses that meet the accreditation requirements and the objectives of your university.
Construct course materials, curricular frameworks, and evaluation strategies.
Employ seasoned instructors and subject-matter specialists to create and instruct courses.
Enrollment and Admissions: Create admission requirements and procedures for potential students.
Decide on admissions policies, cost of tuition, and availability of financial assistance.
Use recruitment and marketing techniques to draw students to your university.
Start and Expand: Launch your university formally and start holding classes.
Keep an eye on and assess how well policies, services, and initiatives are working.
Always look for ways to grow and improve while upholding the integrity and caliber of your academic work.
Continue to uphold quality assurance and compliance: Keep abreast on the latest compliance standards and regulatory needs.
Put in place quality control measures to guarantee both student satisfaction and academic excellence.
Encourage the university community to adopt a culture of accountability and ongoing improvement.
Doni Triatmojo
Sultan Agung Islamic University
To establish an accredited university, a comprehensive approach combining legal, educational, and administrative elements is necessary
  1. Research and Planning: Begin by conducting thorough research on the legal and regulatory requirements for operating a university in your jurisdiction. This includes obtaining information on business licenses, educational standards, and accreditation processes. Develop a detailed business plan outlining your university's mission, programs, faculty, infrastructure, and financial projections.
  2. Legal Compliance: Obtain the necessary legal approvals and licenses to operate a university. This may involve registering your institution with the appropriate government authorities and ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations governing higher education institutions [1].
  3. Accreditation Preparation: Familiarize yourself with the accreditation process and criteria set by recognized accrediting agencies. Develop educational programs and administrative systems that meet or exceed these standards. Create policies and procedures for governance, academic integrity, student services, and quality assurance [4].
  4. Faculty Recruitment: Recruit qualified faculty members who hold advanced degrees in their respective fields and have a strong commitment to academic excellence. Ensure diversity and inclusivity in your faculty recruitment process to offer students a well-rounded educational experience [6].
  5. Infrastructure and Resources: Invest in the development of physical infrastructure, technology, and learning resources required to support teaching, research, and student services. Create state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and online learning platforms to facilitate effective learning experiences [6].
  6. Accreditation Application: Once your institution is fully operational and meets the accreditation criteria, submit an application to the relevant accrediting agency. Provide documentation and evidence demonstrating compliance with accreditation standards. Prepare for site visits and evaluations conducted by accrediting teams [2].
  7. Continuous Improvement: Establish mechanisms for ongoing assessment, evaluation, and improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness. Embrace a culture of continuous improvement to ensure that your university remains responsive to the evolving needs of students, employers, and society [4].
By following these steps diligently and seeking guidance from international best practices and scholarly literature, you can lay the foundation for a successful and accredited university that provides high-quality education and contributes to the advancement of knowledge and society.
Why would you even want to do that?
For most jobs, it's about your active skill set and agility to learn fast what the job at hand requires.
If you had the choice of two candidates: one, a rich kid who sat out their time at Harvard and got their very expensive, prepackaged, Computer Science degree. Or a much poorer kid who had to work their way up by programming for various start-ups and collected a well-thought-through portfolio of online MOOCs certificates. Like with the https://www.khanacademy.org/ for free and others at a mere fraction of a Harvard education.
Which candidate would you choose?

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Having ascertained that human consciousness is able to separate from physical reality and interact with other intelligences in other dimensions within the universe, and that it is both eternal and destined for ultimate return to the Absolute we are faced with the question: "So what happens then?"
Since memory is a function of consciousness and therefore enjoys the same eternal character as the consciousness which accounts for its existence it must be admitted that when consciousness returns to the Absolute it brings with it all the memories it has accumulated through experience in reality. The return of consciousness to the Absolute does not imply an extinction of the separate entity which the consciousness organized and sustained in reality. Rather, it suggests a differentiated consciousness which merges with and participates in the universal consciousness and infinity of the Absolute without losing the separate identity and accumulated self-knowledge which its memories confer upon it. What it does lose is the capability for generation of independent thought holograms, since that can be done only by energy in motion. In other words, it retains the power to perceive but loses the power of will or choice. In exchange, however, this consciousness participates in the all-knowing infinite continuum of consciousness which is a characteristic of energy in the ever present. Consequently, it is accurate to observe that when a person experiences the out-of- body state he is, in fact, projecting that eternal spark of consciousness and memory which constitutes the ultimate source of his identity to let it play in and learn from dimensions both inside and outside the time-space world in which his physical component currently enjoys a short period of reality.“( https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5.pdf ).

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