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Kepler College
Kepler College (formerly Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences) is an unaccredited institution of higher learning which was permitted by the state of Washington to grant degrees between March 9, 2000, and March 9, 2010. None of the degrees granted by Kepler are recognized by federal or regional accrediting agencies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kepler.edu/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142:are-you-accredited&catid=7:general-information&Itemid=121 )〕 It focused on interdisciplinary liberal arts with an emphasis on the history of astrology. However students attending Kepler College after March 9, 2010, unless they are completing a course of study, are not awarded degrees but certificates of completion of a course of study. Kepler is located in Shoreline, Washington, within the northern perimeter of the city of Seattle, and is named after Johannes Kepler.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kepler.edu/home/index.php/about/who-we-are/bot )〕 Kepler College Board of Trustees include Robert Hand, PhD & MA, Medieval Studies, Catholic University of America; BA, Honors History, Brandeis University. Other Trustees Include Nicholas Campion the Vice Chair, Suzanne Duffy-Kane (Kepler Alumni), Christine Arens, ChrisBrennan, Tamira McGillivray, Bruce Scofield, Gloria Star, Giselle Terry.
==History==
In 2001, the school was approved by the Higher Education Coordinating Board. This approval was criticized due to Kepler's focus on astrology. One critic affiliated with the University of Washington compared the study of astrology to the study of tae kwon do or quack medicine.〔 The school's name also has been a subject of comment. John Silber, the chancellor of Boston University suggested that the name "honored Kepler not for his strength but for his weakness, as if a society advocating drunkenness named a school for Ernest Hemingway." Silber noted, "The fact is that astrology, whether judged by its theory or its practice, is bunkum. In a free society there is no reason to prevent those who wish to learn nonsense from finding teachers who want to make money peddling nonsense. But it is inexcusable for the government to certify teachers of nonsense as competent or to authorize — that is, endorse — the granting of degrees in nonsense."
Kepler himself seemed to disdain astrology. Sir Oliver Lodge observed that Kepler was "continually attacking and throwing sarcasm at astrology, but it was the only thing for which people would pay him, and on it after a fashion he lived."〔Lodge, O.J., ''Johann Kepler'' in "The World of Mathematics", Vol. 1 (1956) Ed. Newman, J.R., Simon and Schuster, pp. 231.〕
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