This may not be the most appropriate forum for this question but, I am currently a CFI in search on an airline job and I am curious to know what the consensus among real pilots is. I am a full time flight instructor for a university that is starting a flight program. We are decent sized at 180 students with 150 flying this semester. So here is the question, our DO has said that no flight training may be conducted below 700-1. The CFII's feel that this is ludicrous because we trained in worse and we would not feel confident if not for these expereiences. The ppl in charge are retired military helo drivers and missionary pilots. Both are mostly VFR jobs. There is one F-15 pilot who feels that 200-1/2 is the minimum and therefore train to the hardest tolerance. We instructors are now getting in trouble because our SOP's do not reflect the 700-1 rule but only say that IFR training will be per FAR 91 (200-1/2). In fact, I was ridiculed for taking off with a commercial student into OVC027 to shoot approaches. I was told that when I got back on the ground, that as I took off, a speci came out with OVC007. I was told that I was negligent in my ADM and that I exercisized poor training skills. That same day, another CFII took off in a 2006 Diamond Star with a G1000 that had just come out of 100 hour and lost his alternator while on the ILS. He was ripped for being negligent. Im curious to know if I am out to left field with this, or is low IFR training a reasonable thing.