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Larationist, what you are saying makes sense and is probably true. SCAD, however, was in an unusual position. It had some charges against it for athletic fraud a while back. There were also a number of charges spearheaded by a former SCAD professor, of academic dishonesty by the institution,with supporting documentation etc. Thus, you are talking about an organization that had a lot of dishonesty allegations leveled against them!

Admittedly, these were at least 5-10 years ago;however, there was a LOT of bad "smoke" concerning SCAD . To clear this up, they absolutely should have gotten NASAD accreditation! It would have been good business and frankly, I think would have put a lot of these suspicions to rest. Failing to do this, just makes me and others even more suspicious about them.

You mention it could be a combination of factors such as cost and administrative hassle. Frankly, that is baloney. SCAD has plenty of money. Moreover, probably 95%++ of the stand alone art schools have NASAD accreditation EXCEPT SCAD. Why not?

I met two professors on this forum alone (RainingAgain and maybe Kolko) who were fired. Does SCAD not have tenure as with other institutions? If so, does this affect the quality of professors that they attract? We will never know, and this is the problem. WE WILL NEVER KNOW!
There is just something here that doesn't sit right with me! Usually, when I smell a rat, there are rodents running around!