Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua): Dear MIT President Rafael Reif, and MIT President-elect Sally Kornbluth, Would it be possible for World University and School to co-accredit with MIT?

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua): Dear MIT President Rafael Reif, and MIT President-elect Sally Kornbluth, Would it be possible for World University and School to co-accredit with MIT?

Dear MIT President Rafael Reif, and MIT President-elect Sally Kornbluth,

Greetings from CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in ~200 countries as major online free-to-students' degree granting universities, in these countries' main languages, and in each of all 7,151 known living languages as wiki schools for free people-to-people open teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation.

As World University and School proceeds with seeking to become accredited by Middle States' Commission on Higher Education (with offices in the greater Philadelphia PA area), and licensed by a related university licensing organization, I'm writing to inquire at this stage of licensing and accreditation about possible co-accrediting with MIT itself (where MIT is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education).

While as president of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, I think that Creative Commons' 4 licensing of CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare (which allows for 1. sharing MIT OCW, 2. adapting it, 3. but non-commercially) is what makes it possible for MIT OCW-centric World University and School to build and grow potentially to offer free-to-students' online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school, or similar, WUaS degrees, and that this legally is the extent of our MIT-WUaS relationship, I'm writing to inquire with you MIT President Rafael Reif and MIT President-elect Sally Kornbluth - and in this time of MIT presidential transition - about new possibilities of open co-accreditation, as well as to further grow our communication.

Would it be possible for World University and School to co-accredit with MIT?

All the best,

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World University & School (WUaS)

PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15221

1) non-profit 501 (c) 3 World University and School , and an exempt legal entity in CA too - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(3 legal entities in total)

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

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- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com

Dear Universitians, Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch, Larry, All,

Thanks, Sri Lanka WUaS (Rifai in Sri Lanka at <SriLanka@worlduniversityandschool.org>), for your brilliant alternative accreditation suggestions - and especially to explore co-accreditation in WUaS proceeding to seek to become accredited (long after seeking this with WASC senior and CA's BPPE, and after the coronavirus pandemic). It occurred to me this morning to email the current president of MIT, Rafael Reif, and the incoming president, Nancy Kornbluth, of MIT on January 1, 2023, and to explore thi co-accreditations possibility. Thanks, too, Larry Viehland, for the two MIT magazines on Sunday at your house, 1. with the MIT Tech Review article on Aging Reversal, and 2. with the picture of Rafael Reif on the cover and in the MIT Alumni magazine and an interview with him.

While I think again that the Creative Commons' 4 licensing of CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare (which allows WUaS or anyone to 1. share 2. adapt 3. but non-commercially) is what makes it possible for World University and School to build on MIT OCW (in 7 languages presently), and grow with this, and that this is the extent legally of our relationship, I think inquiring with MIT President Rafael Reif and MIT President-elect Nancy Kornbluth, and at this time of MIT presidential transition, could open new possibilities and possibly different kinds of accreditation possibilities as well as further grow out MIT-WUaS communication. Thank you.

Here's a draft of my email to these 2 current MIT presidents:

"Dear MIT President Rafael Reif, and MIT President-elect Sally Kornbluth,

Would it be possible for World University and School to co-accredit with MIT?

All the best,

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World University & School (WUaS)

PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15221

1) non-profit 501 (c) 3 World University and School , and an exempt legal entity in CA too - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(3 legal entities in total)