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The North Eastern Region (NER) of the ACPE reports in its December 2006 Newsletter that the DOE evaluator, Ms. Joyce Jones, met with the ACPE Accreditation Commission this past November. Apparently there were a number of issues the ACPE needs to address in order to be in compliance with the DOE standards. In particular, Ms. Jones was very concerned about the ACPE's practice of creating satellite CPE centers without the rigors of a site visit and review. This failure, from her point of view, placed students at risk.
The NER newsletter states:
"Ms. Jones pointed out that the greatest disservice to students was the continuation of a unit in an unevaluated site. Her unequivocal counsel was that such situations should receive a cease and desist order rather than accommodation."
The ACPE Accreditation Commission is committed to following-up on her recommendation:
"She provided us with a critical piece of feedback, which will enable us to respond more effectively to a dynamic that has frequently created problems and put students at risk."We think this is a good move by the ACPE to correct their satellite practice which in effect places students in "unevaluated centers," and therefore at risk. Far too often ACPE satellite CPE centers have been created by a handshake between CPE Supervisors and/or a simple "contract" without a site review. This has not been a practice that promotes accountability, and it reflects poorly on all of us in the clinical pastoral movement. We wish the ACPE the best as they work to clean up this messy situation.
-Perry Miller, Editor
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at December 18, 2006 6:22 PM
