ACLAS: Is this even legal?

[Jonathan Whatley]

It is possible to receive Georgia state authorization to offer a graduate degree at a school too new to be institutionally accredited. Ralston College, the recently launched college in Georgia where Jordan Peterson is chancellor, offers an in-person MA in Humanities. Ralston "has been authorized for operation and awarded degree-granting powers by the State of Georgia." Ralston is pursuing regional accreditation (with NECHE, the regional accreditor traditionally for New England. The DOED recently permitted any regional accreditor to accredit schools at any location. NECHE seems to be friendly to small schools.)

No evidence has been shown here that ACLAS holds such authorization from the state of Georgia.