Accreditation

An accreditation warning issued to Penn State is serious and necessary given the issues raised by a recent child sex-abuse scandal, but the school is unlikely to lose the all-important designation, experts said Tuesday.

Even though Pennsylvania State University got yet another stern warning Monday, it is highly unlikely that the university will lose its accreditation as a result of the child sex-abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach, national experts said.

With great fanfare, Kean University and Chinese officials broke ground last March on the first foreign campus of the New Jersey institution, to be built at Wenzhou University in Zhejiang Province.

Kean University President Darwood Farahi continues to raise the ire of faculty. Within the last few months Farahi received a vote of “no confidence" by the faculty.

The Higher Education Policy Commission is reaching out once again to try to assist Mountain State University students with their options about furthering their education.

Virginia Union University has been publicly sanctioned by its accrediting agency because of non-compliance with three core financial standards.

Worried Mountain State University students, fearful of their educational futures since they learned their school was losing its accreditation, searched for options Monday at an education fair.

UC Riverside didn't give up after being denied accreditation for a medical school, and officials hope that new funding will mean students can enroll next year.

A college accrediting agency has put Dickinson State University on notice because of the school's problems with enrollment reporting, grade inflation and tuition discounts.

Though Kean University has been placed on academic probation and could lose its standing as an accredited four-year school in just one year, Ocean County College President Jon H. Larson was optimistic Thursday.