Accreditation

Officials: Despite accreditation issues, Kean@Ocean relationship is flourishing

California's largest community college responds to findings this summer by an accrediting commission that placed its future in jeopardy.

An evaluation team representing the Middle States Commission on Higher Education got to see firsthand how University of Pittsburgh officials planned and assessed emergency situations.

Saying "our actions will predict our future," Kean University’s board of trustees unanimously approved a report tonight outlining why the school should keep its accreditation.

St. Paul's College is going to federal court to win its accreditation.

For more than a decade, Morris Brown College has clung to life as it struggled academically and financially in the face of growing debt and dwindling support.

Kean University officials are making their case to keep the school’s accreditation in an 80-page report that lists dozens of changes the campus made in response to being put on probation by its accrediting agency.

Consumer protection rules for those attending colleges and universities in West Virginia appear on their way to passage by state lawmakers next year.

The Michigan Department of Education has given the teacher-preparation program at Western Michigan University an "at-risk" rating, making it one of three programs in the state with that ranking.

Community colleges throughout California are facing sanctions from the agency that accredits colleges in the West, largely a result of the state cutting funding for several years as the federal government has stepped up performance standards.