The Institute for Creation Research is continuing to press to get their pseudoscience degree-granting operation set up for business in Texas. They’ve run into a stumbling-block: the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board wants degrees granted with their approval to actually be based on science. This message went out from the ICR today:<\/p>\n
\nOCTOBER 30, 2008<\/p>\n
Dear Friends:<\/p>\n
As we indicated to you on Tuesday, ICR’s special counsel, Jim Johnson, and I
\nmet with representatives from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
\n(THECB) in a pre-hearing mediation meeting on Wednesday. The mediation was
\nconducted by an administrative law judge at the State Office of Administrative
\nHearings in Austin.<\/p>\nICR met with the THECB prior to an official administrative hearing, in hopes
\nthat our graduate school’s application for authority to grant Master of
\nScience degrees in Texas might be settled prior to any further legal
\nproceedings. ICR Graduate School (ICRGS) has been offering M.S. degrees from
\nits California campus for 27 years and last year sought to move the school to
\nTexas, where our research and communications work now reside.<\/p>\nHowever, this controversy was not resolved at the mediation meeting on
\nWednesday.<\/p>\nThe primary dispute turns on the regulatory interpretation of the word
\n“science,” with the THECB insisting that any science degree or science program
\nmust be evolution-based-without any mixture of “religion” in the program. The
\nTHECB went further to say that their board held ultimate responsibility to
\nregulate any program that issued a “standard” degree (M.S., M.A., M.Ed.,
\netc.). Thus it would not be possible for ICRGS to keep its current program
\neven if we were to change the degree title to Master of Education, for
\nexample.<\/p>\nThe five THECB representatives did concur, however, that a degree program in
\nChristian education or apologetics was not within their jurisdiction, as long
\nas the degree title was not “standard” nomenclature, such as an M.C.Ed.
\n(Masters in Christian Education).<\/p>\nI want to thank you for praying for us during the meeting. The meeting was
\ncordial and both sides were able to clarify certain misunderstandings
\nregarding each other’s positions and reasons for the debate.<\/p>\nICRGS will now continue the Texas administrative appeal process in order to
\nsecure the right to offer its Master of Science degree program in Texas, as it
\nhas been doing for 27 years in California.<\/p>\nDr. Henry Morris III
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