Ravenburn

Good question.

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A microcollege has at least three faculty members and three non-faculty board members. The faculty run the school in their dual capacities as educators and administrators. It is a registered 501(c)3 entity or doing business under the auspices of such an entity. Finally, all microcolleges follow the rules of the Open Latch Educational Foundation (OLEF) for how it delivers its classes.

 

OLEF provides quality control concerning matters of general learning, online learning, assessment, record-keeping, compliance and complaints, and pricing. In fact, OLEF is the glue behind articulation, or the guarantee that classes under the same title will transfer to any faculty school accredited by OLEF. This is "articulation," and this allows for an easy movement between students and schools, which, in turn, helps the students travel, get a variety of experiences, make more contacts, and make more friends.

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We think churches and Christian businesses are ideally situated to be the physical location for a microcollege. Not only do they have the classroom space, they provide venues for real-life service for the practicum requirements. Also, pastors and businessmen running schools like Ravenburn can shepherd promising young men and women who have grown up under their ministry or service to eventually become the leaders of the local church or Christian business in that particular physical area and demography.

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Ravenburn can help this network come about by providing all our templates for transcripts, course policies, online course cartridges, and so forth. We can help aspiring schools learn and meet state compliance issues, and we can help them through the accreditation process with OLEF. Finally, we can provide the general-learning units online so that the pastors can focus on the program-specific curriculum.

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