{"id":6551,"date":"2013-11-14T19:27:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T20:12:41","slug":"chemistry-department-wins-acs-full-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/11\/14\/chemistry-department-wins-acs-full-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry Department Wins ACS Full Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6552\" alt=\"Chemistry student photo\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/11\/ChemAccredPic.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/about\/governance\/committees\/training\/acsapproved.html\" target=\"_blank\">The American Chemical Society<\/a> recently approved KSC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/academics\/programs\/chem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chemistry Department<\/a> for full accreditation. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/about\/governance\/committees\/training.html\" target=\"_blank\">Committee on Professional Training<\/a> (CPT) governs the approval process, getting input from academic and industrial representatives to determine what should comprise a proper chemical education. The standards are very comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What this means to the department and students is that we have validation of the quality of the facilities, staff, major program, and other resources (library, instrumentation),&#8221; explained Associate Professor of Chemistry <a href=\"http:\/\/academics.keene.edu\/rblatchly\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Richard Blatchly<\/strong><\/a>. &#8220;The students will get a certificate attesting to this, and presumably will have it marked on their transcripts. That should be appealing to employers and graduate schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Blatchly also said that prospective students frequently ask if our programs are ACS approved. The answer now is &#8220;Yes.&#8221; The approval could be very important, Dr. Blatchly noted, &#8220;as it marks us as an institution which cares a lot about academic quality, and is willing to provide the resources and energy to achieve and maintain it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Chemical Society recently approved KSC&#8217;s Chemistry Department for full accreditation. The Committee on Professional Training (CPT) governs the approval process, getting input from academic and industrial representatives to determine what should comprise a proper chemical education. The standards are very comprehensive. &#8220;What this means to the department and students is that we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/11\/14\/chemistry-department-wins-acs-full-accreditation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry Department Wins ACS Full Accreditation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[441,456],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chemistry","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6554,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}