[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3301]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Recognitiion of Accrediting Agencies, State Agencies for Approval
of Public Postsecondary Vocational Education, and State Agencies for
Approval of Nurse Education
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for comments on agencies applying to the Secretary for
Renewal of Recognition.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karen W. Kershenstein, Director, Accreditation and Eligibility
Determination Division, U.S. Department of Education, 7th and D
Streets, S.W., Room 3915 ROB-3, Washington, DC 20202-5244, telephone:
(202) 708-7417. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-
8339 between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
Submission of Third-Party Comments.
The Secretary of Education recognizes, as reliable authorities as
to the quality of education offered by institutions or programs within
their scope, accrediting agencies and State approval agencies for
public postsecondary vocational education and nurse education that meet
certain criteria for recognition. A notice published in the Federal
Register on December 29, 1997 (Volume 62, page 67632) invited
interested third parties to present written comments on agencies
scheduled for review at the June 1998 meeting of the National Advisory
Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI). The purpose
of this notice is to correct information that was provided in the
December 29 notice regarding the names of two agencies that appeared in
that notice, to add two other agencies to the list of agencies whose
interim reports are to be reviewed at the June meeting, and to delete
one agency, the Oklahoma State Board of Vocational and Technical
Education, from that list. The correct information is included at the
end of this notice. This notice also extends the deadline from February
12, 1998 to March 12, 1998 for interested third parties to present
written comments on the two agencies named in this notice that will be
filing interim reports. All other provisions of the December 29, 1997
Federal Register notice remain in effect.
Petitions for Renewal of Recognition
1. Commission on Opticianry Accreditation (requested scope of
recognition: the accreditation of two-year programs for the ophthalmic
dispenser and one-year programs for the ophthalmic laboratory
technician)
2. Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs,
Board of Directors (requested scope of recognition: the accreditation
and preaccreditation (``Candidate status'') of educational programs for
the allied health occupations of cytotechnologist and
electroneurodiagnostic technologist)
Interim Reports
1. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on
Colleges
2. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (Note: this agency
was incorrectly listed as the Oklahoma State Board of Vocational and
Technical Education in the December 29, 1997 notice.)
Dated: February 5, 1998.
David A. Longanecker,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. 98-3301 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am]
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