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Selected Member Biographies 

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Terry E. Moffitt   Barbara Monteith   Dr. Stanley Monteith   Charles Moore   Dr. Raymond Moore   Sam Moore   Thomas Slick Moorman   Dr. Henry M. Morris   Rev. Duane R. Motley   William D. Mounger  

Terry E. Moffitt - CNP 1996, 1998; executive director, Christian Policy Research Institute; trains evangelical volunteers, Promise Keepers; authored Uncovering the Books of the Law: The Bible in American Education; former high school principal; listed in "Who's Who in American Education" and "Who's Who Among America's Educators"; former city council member, High Point City Council; former vice president and national spokesman, National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools; North Carolina State Chairman, Alan Keyes presidential campaign; attends Network Church, High Point, NC

Dr. Stanley Monteith - CNP 1996, 1998; Host of Radio Liberty 2 ; author, AIDS: The Unnecessary Epidemic; publishes, HIV-Watch, a nationally circulated newsletter covering the HIV epidemic; spends three hours daily on talk radio in California; Speaker on Prophecy Club. See: The Prophecy Club and Elijah   Footnotes 2

Charles Moore - CNP 1984-85, 1988; Vice President of Thomas Nelson. Brother of Sam Moore , President of Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Dr. Raymond Moore - CNP Board of Governors 1982, 1994, 1988, 1998; Seventh day Adventist; chairman/CEO 3 The Moore Foundation; founder and president, Hewitt Research Foundation

"Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore are professionals known around the world; he for reorganizing colleges and universities and for establishing highly-successful work-study programs; she as a world class curriculum and reading authority; and both as child specialists who shared in the founding of modern homeschooling... affectionately known as the "Grandparents of the homeschooling movement." They have been involved with homeschooling for 55 years. Some of their successes include: The Moore Formula which has produced an unusual numbers of scholarships. 4 

See: Letters <http://www.homestead.com/barbooch/WhitePaper.html> re: Homeschooling to Heritage Foundation. 

Regarding Controversy over Moores methods:

"...For the last few years, however, some of his ideas seem to have fallen into disfavor. His books are no longer as widely circulated and cited, and he is seldom invited to speak at conventions.... Great controversy surrounds the whole issue. Dr. Moore has disagreed strongly and publicly with other home school leaders (notably Gregg Harris) over issues such as when and how children should learn to read, whether and when traditional academic means such as textbooks and workbooks should be pursued, and whether home school groups should be exclusively Christian, or open to any and all beliefs. An effort at Christian mediation and peacemaking was made, but apparently with little lasting success. J. Richard Fugate, President of Alpha Omega Publications, even wrote a book refuting Dr. Moore's position that early reading is harmful to children, and tracing Dr. Moore's approach to humanistic origins. Clearly Raymond Moore is no longer in the lead, or even in the mainstream of home education in America...Though a professing Christian, Dr. Moore's main focus seems to be providing children a loving and warm environment where they may be free to blossom in their own way, at their time, without pressure. He emphasizes real work and service, lots of free play, and no formal academics until age 8, 10, or 12...A Seventh-Day Adventist himself, he made frequent reference to God, to family and religious values, and the value of service to others. His writings portrayed a childhood of peace, security, warmth, beauty, freedom, order, and natural, unforced discipline, where little ones could romp and play, learn and grow according to their own instincts." 5 

Hewitt Research Foundation, awarded a grant $250,000 by the National Institute of Education (NIE) to do "A Study Which Compares the Academic and Behavioral Measures of the Home-taught Child with National Norms." Dr. Moore was an Adjunct Professor of "Early Childhood Education" (ECE) at NOVA University located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. NOVA University is part of the South Florida Education Center - a "master plane" for an "Education Park" of four elementary schools, a junior high school, a high school, a junior college, and a full university. It is part of the public school system of Broward County (Fort Lauderdale), Florida, operated and financed in cooperation with various educational institutions and foundations... NOVA University is an INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER OF THE WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY! 63"  6 See: Jay Gary & The World Future Society

The World Future Society held a 1982 conference, in which Al Gore welcomed and arranged for members of Congress to attend. He also moderated a session including New Age networkers Barbara Marx Hubbard and other New Agers and Club of Rome members. Gore was also plenary speaker at the 1986 World Future Society Conference. 7  

World Future Society 8 of which Jay Gary, David B. Barrett, founder and president Global Evangelization Movement (GEM) and Todd M. Johnson, GEM, and YWAM missionary, are also members. See: Jay Gary & The World Future Society; World Vision: Global Education; Jay Gary   Footnotes 3-8

Sam Moore - CNP President, Executive Committee 1984-85, member 1988, 1996, 1998, 1999, Board of Governors 1996; CEO/President, Thomas Nelson Publishers 9, the largest and one of the oldest Bible publishers in the world and also a leading publisher of religious books. In 1982, they acquired Dodd Mead Co. of New York and Everest House. 

Member of National Religious Broadcasters Board of Directors, current or past> See: The 2005 National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention With Focus On Mel Gibson's The Passion Recut and also see: The 2005 National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention With Focus On Michael Rood

In 1969, Sam Moore purchased Thomas Nelson Publishers, vowing to return it to its once proud place among the leading publishers of the world. 10 In 1958, Sam founded the National Book Company. Three years later, he incorporated Royal Publishing, a Bible publishing company. He sold stock in 1962 to about 250 people including Billy Graham's mother...With popular authors ranging from Robert Schuller and Charles Stanley to Jack Hayford and John Hagee, Nelson's distinctive mission is to serve the entire Christian community in all its diversity...Thomas Nelson has also grown by bringing other companies into the publishing family, including Here's Life Publishers, J. Countryman, and the Spanish- language publisher Editorial Caribe, Inc...In 1992 Nelson took a significant step forward with the acquisition of Word, Inc., one of the world's foremost Christian publishers and home to many popular authors including Billy Graham, Charles Swindoll, Max Lucado, Barbara Johnson, and Frank Peretti. Today, Nelson and Word titles consistently dominate the Christian bestsellers lists..." 11 

CNP's Robert Wolgemuth was former president Thomas Nelson Communications; former vice president of sales/marketing/publishing division, Word, Inc.

He co-founded and was chairman Wolgemuth & Hyatt Publishers in 1986, with now Senior Vice President and Publisher of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Michael S. Hyatt. The company was eventually sold to Word in 1992. Hyatt and Wolgemuth then formed a Christian literary agency which represented several of the most successful authors in the industry. In 1998, Hyatt sold his interest in the business to Wolgemuth and joined Thomas Nelson, Inc.  12 

Thomas Nelson debut the New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) in 1946. In 1976, Nelson Publisher initiated the New King James Version. Two meetings of the North American Overview Committee 13 met at Nashville and Chicago in 1975 to assist in preparing guidelines for the NKJV. Members of that committee and a Nashville Convocation of 1984 included the following CNP/Religious Roundtable members: Tim LaHaye, D. James Kennedy, Jerry Falwell, Ben Hayden, Mary Crowley , W.A. Criswell, E.V. Hill, Henry Morris, Bill Bright and Charles Stanley.

"The business was being managed primarily by George M. Brown (Thomas Nelson's son-in-law) and John Buchan, a noted novelist (of such popular works as Prester John and The Thirty-Nine Steps), biographer, and political correspondent. John Buchan, a close friend of Tommy Nelson became instrumental in expanding the company's offerings of classic works and educational resources... 14 

In 1906, John Buchan of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table became a partner in the publishing firm of his old classmate Thomas Nelson which was located in Edinburgh, Scotland. [See: Cecil Rhodes]

"Buchan was not a member of the inner core of the Milner Group, but was close to it and was rewarded in 1935 by being raised to a barony as Lord Tweedsmuir and sent to Canada as Governor-General. He is important because he is (with Lionel Curtis) one of the few members of the inner circles of the Milner Group who have written about it in a published work. In his autobiography, Pilgrim's Way, (Boston, 1940) he gives a brief outline of the personnel of the Kindergarten and their subsequent achievements, and a brilliant analysis of Milner himself...Buchan went to Brasenose College, but, as he says of himself, 'I lived a good deal at Balliol and my closest friends were of that college.' He mentions as his closest friends Hillaire Belloc,... T.A. Nelson,... Edward Wood (the future Lord Halifax)..."

"Buchan went to South Africa in 1901 on Milner's personal invitation, to be his private secretary, but stayed only two years... he left in 1903 to take an important position in Egypt. This appointment was mysteriously canceled...it is...likely that Milner changed his mind because of Buchan's rapidly declining enthusiasm for federation. This was a subject on which Milner and other members of his Group were adamant for many years. By 1915 most members of the Group began to believe that federation was impossible, and, as a compromise took what we know now as the Commonwealth of Nations -- that is, a group of nations joined together by common ideals and allegiances rather than a fixed political organization...The present Commonwealth is in reality the compromises worked out when the details of the Milner Group clashed with the reality of political forces. As a result of Buchan's failure to obtain the appointment of Egypt, he continued to practice law in London for three years, finally abandoning it to become a partner in the publishing firm of classmate Thomas A. Nelson (1906-1916)." 15  

"Born in Perth in 1875, John Buchan, 1st Baron of Tweedsmuir, is one of the fathers of the modern detective thriller. These days, the term 'Buchanesque' is used to describe well-written, fast-paced and subtly plotted spy novels. As well as a prolific writer of fiction, John Buchan was a statesman, a director of Nelsons the publishers, President of the Scottish History Society, Governor General of Canada and Chancellor of Edinburgh University - the list of his appointments is too lengthy to give in full detail." 16  Although trained as a lawyer, Buchan became private secretary to Lord Alfred Milner 17 , high commissioner for South Africa. In 1903 he returned to England where he became a director of the publishing company, Thomas Nelson & Sons. 18   Footnotes 9-18

Thomas Slick Moorman-  CNP 1998; member, advisory board, The Salvation Army; President, Moorman Land and Cattle Company; member, The Argyle, San Antonio Country Club, German Club, Order of the Alamo and Town Club; director, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association; director emeritus, San Antonio Livestock Exposition; former member, finance committee, Republican Party of Texas; chairman of the board, Foundation for Christian Education and Vital Food Sources.

Dr. Henry M. Morris- CNP Board of Governors 1982, member 1988, 1996, 1998; founder, former  President/Director for the Institute of Creation Research 19 ; co-founder and former president, Christian Heritage College 20; co-founder and former president, Creation Research Society 21; co-founder and president, TransNational Association of Christian Schools 22 (TRACS); From 1957 to 1970 he was Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Henry Morris, was TRACS' founder and chairman. Henry Morris's own Institute for Creation Research was accredited via his TRACS.

The Institute for Creation Research was first established in 1970 and reorganized with its present name in 1972 to meet the need for an organization devoted to research, publication, and teaching in those fields of science particularly relevant to the study of origins. It was originally formed as the research division of Christian Heritage College (also established in 1970, but became separate and autonomous in 1981).

The first graduate courses were taught in the summer of 1981, and all degree programs were then examined by the Office of Private Postsecondary Education of the State of California and received the State's "Approved" rating in June 1981. In 1989, the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction attempted to withdraw this rating and close the school because of its creationist perspective in science. Legal actions taken by ICR, however, prevented this, so that full "Approval" was reconfirmed early in 1992. In 1995 the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education confirmed that ICR/OS met the exemption requirement as defined in California Education Code 94303(B)(2). The exemption from the approval process is related to ICR/OS's national accreditation under TRACS and is good for the calendar years 1992-1996. 23 

TransNational Association of Christian Schools (TRACS) 24 

Currently: 25 

TRACS is a nationally recognized accrediting body of Christian schools and colleges, and welcomes the affiliation of institutions which seek to excel in the pursuit of Christian higher education....

TRACS is a voluntary, non-profit, self-governing organization of Christian postsecondary institutions, and is recognized by the U.S.Department of Education (USDE) 26  and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) 27 as a national accrediting agency authorized for the accreditation and pre-accreditation of postsecondary institutions that offer certificates, diplomas, and associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees.  The USDE recognition was reaffirmed for five (5) years in December of 1999.  CHEA recogntition was granted May 1, 2001, for a period of ten (10) years...."

Some of the executive.... 28

....TRACS Executive Director, Russell G. Fitzgerald, holds a B.S. from Frostburg State University, and an M.A. and Ed.D. from West Virginia University. Having been with TRACS since 1988, Dr. Fitzgerald assumed the Directorship of the agency in 1997 ...

Dr. Jeff McCann, > Associate Executive Director>...received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and previously served as Executive Vice President of Piedmont Baptist College. He joined with TRACS as a Regional Coordinator in 1996 and continues in the capacity of Associate Executive Director...

Dr. David Beck > Regional Coordinator >...received his Ph.D. from Boston University. Dave has spent many years traveling and teaching abroad (which he continues to do) and has been with TRACS since 1998....

According to Steve Levicoff, in his book Name It and Frame It, from Chapter 10, which discusses TRACS historically:

 "Finally, there are two schools listed in this chapter which are accredited by TRACS, the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (see discussion in Chapter 3). At this writing, TRACS is recognized by the United States Department of Education but not by the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation (CORPA). Following hearings in May 1995, the Department of Education put the reapproval of TRACS on hold for eighteen months, at which time further hearings will be held on their status (TRACS is still considered an approved accreditor in the meantime). Pending a determination of that status, I have chosen to err on the side of caution and have listed schools holding their only accreditation with TRACS in this chapter. I admit that this is partially an editorial decision based on my skepticism of the past performance of TRACS, and if TRACS receives a full reapproval I will be delighted to move these schools to another chapter in this book. 29 

From Chapter 3:

"....In 1991, the Department of Education recognized the Transnational Association of Christian Schools (TRACS), an evangelical association which accredits Bible colleges and seminaries, but TRACS is not recognized by CORPA at this writing. (Without fanfare, in 1992 TRACS changed its name to the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.) TRACS was founded in 1979 to act as an accreditor of private Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries.[2] Unlike the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges and the Association of Theological Schools, TRACS deals with Christian liberal arts and vocational colleges as well as schools which focus on a biblical curriculum. Their institutional requirements include a belief in "Biblical inerrancy, Biblical authority, the historicity of the first eleven chapters of Genesis including special creation as opposed to evolution, and other doctrines of the gospel."[3]
        Despite the government's approval of TRACS as an accrediting agency, I do not consider TRACS a legitimate accreditor. There are several factors through which I arrive at my rationale:

• The Transnational Association was granted its initial two-year approval from the Department of Education by Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush administration, over the objections of his own Eligibility and Evaluation Staff. Alexander had been friendly toward evangelical Christian schools in the past and his support was instrumental in thwarting the efforts of the Middle States Association to discriminate against Westminster Theological Seminary. However, the sword of politics can cut both ways. Since the approval of TRACS, Richard Riley, former governor of South Carolina, has become Secretary of Education for the Clinton administration. Based on traditional Democratic positions on educational, social, and religious issues, it is reasonable to assume that the government may not be as sympathetic toward religious education and a conservative Christian accrediting agency, and TRACS' approval could fall by the wayside.
    

  There are some mitigating circumstances that work both against and in favor of TRACS when it comes to their reapproval by the Department of Education. Based on such factors as the previous recommendations of the Department of Education's Eligibility and Evaluation Staff against the approval of TRACS, the resistance of many people to the intersection of religion and education via tuition tax credits and school choice, and the liberal nature of the Democratic party platform,... From a political perspective, ... note that TRACS was, at the time of its approval, headquartered in Tennessee and that Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education during the Bush administration, is a former governor of Tennessee (which may have worked in TRACS' favor in terms of their initial approval). ... current Vice-President Al Gore, Jr., is a former United States senator from Tennessee and Dick Riley, Secretary of Education in the Clinton administration, was the governor of South Carolina, which has a large evangelical Christian population. ... the political climate that appears to be against TRACS' reapproval could take second place to the principle of precedent - since TRACS has been approved already, the Department of Education may reapprove them despite the political climate. ... 

• TRACS has a category called "associate status." Unlike candidacy or full accreditation, associate status is not a membership category, but is a way for Christian schools who agree with the doctrinal standards of TRACS to identify with the agency. ... some degree mills have subscribed to TRACS as "associates," implying legitimacy through an agency that has been recognized by the Department of Education.

• TRACS itself has granted candidacy status to some questionable schools (including a few listed in Chapter 12 of this book) that would likely never qualify for accreditation by a regional accrediting agency.

• The recognition of TRACS presents church-state difficulties. Their approval by the Department of Education could, hypothetically, be declared unconstitutional if their status is challenged in court. In 1971, the United States Supreme Court articulated what became known as the Lemon test, which holds that any statute on the part of the federal government or a state government must meet all of the following conditions:
  
  First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion; finally, the statute must not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion.[4]

  In addition to statutes, the Lemon test has been held applicable to local laws, policies, procedures, and other government actions dealing with religion. If challenged, the Department of Education's recognition of TRACS could be declared a violation of all three prongs of the test:
   

  • The act of recognizing TRACS may appear to have a secular purpose, that is, maintaining quality standards in programs of higher education. However, the Department's recognition is specifically geared toward the recognition of a religious accrediting agency whose sole purpose is the accreditation of Christian programs.
  • The Department of Education's approval of TRACS advances religion in general, and evangelical Christianity in particular. While you or I may not have a problem with such an endorsement, the courts have consistently construed that the advancement of religion over non-religion, or of one particular faith over another, violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
  • The courts are likely to construe the monitoring of TRACS by the Department of Education as an excessive entanglement of government with a pervasively Christian agency.

  (As a side note, the same issues could theoretically be raised about the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges, which is also an evangelical Christian accrediting agency. The Association of Theological Schools, on the other hand, accredits both Christian and non-Christian schools.)

• The doctrinal statement of TRACS contains several points with which many Bible-believing Christians would disagree...

  ... TRACS appears to be expressing a preference for charismatic doctrine. In addition to the general factors which could be interpreted as a violation of the Lemon test discussed previously, the doctrinal statement could be construed as a further violation of the test since it advances a particular form of Christianity (not to mention the effect it will have in terms of alienating many evangelical Christians). One reason for the doctrinaire nature of TRACS' position appears to be that their former board chairman is Henry Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research, an otherwise unaccredited graduate school in California, and a well-known apologist and creation science scholar who has written extensively about the "young earth" view of history. Morris' influence is so strong that TRACS attaches a two-page defense of the young earth position (written by Morris) to their doctrinal statement.
   

• Finally, many educators I have spoken to at regionally accredited Christian schools, as well as several state education commissioners, have expressed significant reservations about TRACS' credibility. If there are doubts about TRACS within the professional academic community, that raises further questions in my own mind about the extent to which their accreditation will be viewed as credible by colleges, universities, and seminaries that are accredited by an agency recognized by the Department of Education and CORPA.

        For a school to seek accreditation by TRACS does not necessarily indicate that the school is a degree mill; in fact, a few credible schools are seeking or have received TRACS accreditation. Despite the reputation TRACS has among many academic professionals of not being a solid accrediting agency, there are several reasons that a few legitimate schools have decided to affiliated with TRACS. For example:

• Notwithstanding that they are overly doctrinaire and have recognized several schools which I have classified as degree mills, the fact remains that, at this writing, they are recognized by the United States Department of Education (though not by CORPA). This limited recognition ensures that students applying to TRACS-accredited schools will be able to receive federal financial assistance for their education, thus improving the enrollment statistics at such schools.

• Because of their recognition by the Department of Education, some educators see TRACS as a stepping stone to accreditation by a regional agency. "If TRACS will accredit us," the rationale goes, "we may stand a better chance of ultimately being recognized by a regional accreditor."

• In four cases, TRACS has accredited schools that also hold other recognized accreditations. Liberty University, which is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), is also a fully accredited member of TRACS. However, Liberty was recently placed on probation by SACS and, while the probation was ultimately lifted, the university continues to have financial problems and is under investigation by the Department of Education. ...

• In addition to Liberty, other TRACS-accredited schools that are accredited by agencies recognized by both the United States Department of Education and CORPA are The Criswell College in Dallas, Texas (also accredited by SACS), Christian Heritage College (which was co-founded by TRACS' Chairman of the Board, Henry Morris, and is also accredited by the Western Association), and Florida Bible College (also accredited by the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges). These schools may feel that TRACS accreditation is a further credible expression of their legitimacy or a hedge against future negative action toward one of the other accreditors, or may simply support TRACS' mission and/or doctrinal statement.

• Schools that might have a moral objection to becoming accredited by a regional agency, AABC, or ATS may have less of a problem with TRACS, which has a more pervasively biblical doctrinal statement with which schools holding to the "young earth" creation doctrine can agree.

• Legitimate schools that have been recognized by TRACS never applied for regional or professional accreditation in the first place, have nothing with which to compare TRACS, have never considered the arguments I raise in this chapter, and may be unaware that TRACS has also recognized several questionable schools.

        In summary, TRACS' limited recognition is somewhat tenuous and their reputation is somewhat controversial. Students are better off enrolling in schools that are accredited by a regional association, the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges, or the Association of Theological Schools, all of which are fully recognized by both accreditor-approving agencies (the Department of Education and/or CORPA) and by other academic institutions.
        Having reported several negative findings about TRACS, let me say a few positive things before we move on.... TRACS is obviously a sincere effort to bring quality to Christian higher education. I think that they've been sloppy in some of their methodology, but I have no doubt about the legitimacy of their motivation. Second, there are several reputable scholars who are on the board of TRACS and who serve on TRACS accreditation teams, more than can be said about the accreditation mills. The mere existence of TRACS underscores a need for reform in the world of accreditation, as evidenced by recent controversies with some regional accrediting agencies that will be discussed in Chapter 5. Finally, TRACS has responded positively to some of the criticisms in this book (which an accreditation mill wouldn't have done), which also underscores the legitimacy of their motivation.
        (Lest I sound too positive, however, TRACS also threatened to sue me for what I've written about them. They haven't done so, which leads me to believe that their threats were merely a form of pressure to get me to change what I have written in previous editions of this book. Well, I haven't. Suffice to say, the evaluation of any organization should be based on the analysis of available facts and shouldn't take into consideration any external pressures, whether positive or negative.)

A Fourth Edition Postscript on TRACS

        In reviewing the above text on TRACS for this edition, I find no substantive changes in the history and evaluation of TRACS as I have relayed it in these pages. There have, however, been a few developments which bear reporting here.
        In May 1995, the United States Department of Education held hearings on the reapproval of TRACS. Even though they were originally granted a two-year approval in 1991, the hearings were not held until 1995 because of changes in federal laws governing accreditation, a change in presidential administration in Washington, and the appointment of a new National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity at the Department of Education.
        In 1993, as a follow up to Name It & Frame It, I wrote a book titled When the TRACS Stop Short: An Evaluation and Critique of the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.[7] Unlike this book, which was written primarily for students and other educational consumers, When the TRACS Stop Short was geared primarily toward the professional education community and addressed only schools that were recognized by TRACS through accreditation, candidacy, or associate status.
        If TRACS was displeased with what I wrote about them in Name It & Frame It, they went ballistic when they heard about When the TRACS Stopped Short and engaged Wendell Bird, a prominent Christian attorney who has written some excellent materials on constitutional issues, to take legal action. TRACS threatened litigation, I had a few laughs, and they never sued. (As for whether my book defamed the accreditor, I felt somewhat vindicated to read in the prestigious Chronicle of Higher Education, "TRACS officials have called [When the TRACS Stop Short] inaccurate, but the Education Department found that the group based some improvements on criticisms raised in the book.")[8]
        At the Department of Education hearings in May 1995, the National Advisory Committee found serious problems with TRACS and voted to give them eighteen months to improve before facing another review by the Department. One problem the Committee found was that TRACS had granted candidacy status to Nashville Bible College, a traditional residential school which at the time had only twelve full-time students, seven part-time students, and two part-time faculty members.
        The Committee did not substantively address the church-state concerns expressed about TRACS here, but did note that the language used to describe TRACS in government publications - indicating that TRACS accredited "Christian institutions which believe in Biblical inerrancy, Biblical authority, the historicity of the first 11 chapters of Genesis including special creation as opposed to evolution, and other doctrines of the Gospel" - could be construed as giving the impression that the Department endorsed a particular set of doctrines. The Committee did recommend the use of more neutral language, but TRACS executive director J. Gordon Henry stated that there was nothing wrong with the description, noting, "TRACS has no identity crisis about who we are."[9]
        As of September 1995, ... J. Gordon Henry has retired as the association's executive director, as has Henry Morris, TRACS' founder and chairman. TRACS has moved from Tennessee (where it had been headquartered on the same grounds as J. Gordon Henry's home) to Forest, Virginia. The association has appointed Earl Mills and Russell Fitzgerald, both of whom served at Liberty University, as associate executive directors.
        In a recent interview, Mills indicated some changes at TRACS which may improve the quality of their performance. However, TRACS policies dictate that action cannot be taken against recognized institutions on an immediate basis, and that questionable institutions must be given time to improve their performance before final action is taken....."  30  

***End quote.

As Levicoff stated:

"TRACS has a category called "associate status." Unlike candidacy or full accreditation, associate status is not a membership category, but is a way for Christian schools who agree with the doctrinal standards of TRACS to identify with the agency. Unfortunately, some degree mills have subscribed to TRACS as "associates," implying legitimacy through an agency that has been recognized by the Department of Education." Footnotes 19-30

Two of the diploma mills that Levicoff referenced are found in connection to the credentials of the Don and David Hargis. See: 

http://www.seekgod.ca/dondavidhargis.htm

http://www.seekgod.ca/mbiyeshiva.htm

Rev. Duane R. Motley - CNP 1996, 1998; founder, President and registered lobbyist, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms; founder and president, New Yorker's Family Research Foundation; board member and executive director, New York Association of Christian Schools; member, New York State Education Commissioner's Advisory Council for non­public education; legislative director and member of board of directors, American Association of Christian Schools 31; host, weekly live, call­in radio program; produce, and distributes, weekly radio and monthly TV programs on political issues; former associate pastor and business manager, First Bible Baptist Church, Rochester, N.Y.; former director, North Star Bible Institute, First Bible Baptist Church. Spencerport, NY. Footnotes 31

William D. Mounger - CNP 1984, 1988, 1996, 1998; President, Delta Royalty Company/Mounger Oil Company; Vice President, former Executive Committee member and National Membership Chairman, Independent Petroleum Association of America; Mississippi Republican Finance Chairman, 1966-1977; Mississippi Finance Chairman for Nixon campaigns 1968-1972; Chairman Reagan Campaign, 1976; Chairman, Campaign '80 for Mississippi; Finance Chairman, Mississippi, Reagan-Bush '84... 

ELF Member: Both Dudley and Robbie Hughes [CNP]  are members of Mississippi State University's The Radvanyi Chair in International Studies 32, Executive Lecture Forum (ELF). "...It hosts internationally respected speakers from around the globe to address the membership. Its publications reach government agencies, think-tanks, and major libraries. The Executive Lecture Forum is managed by Dr. János Radványi. Through his wide ranging contacts - military leaders, diplomats, and government dignitaries worldwide..."  Footnotes 32

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