Does anyone know anything about the accreditation warning?
As per LMU-DCOM's website:
Following the most recent accreditation review and site visit in early 2018, LMU-DCOM was found to be compliant with 57 of 61 elements and reaccredited by the COCA through 2022. In accordance with the newly established rubric developed by the COCA, LMU-DCOM was granted continuing accreditation with heightened monitoring. LMU-DCOM submitted a progress report November 1, 2018 and COCA accepted the progress report without amendments and all standards were met. COCA has also granted LMU-DCOM approval for an additional location and class size increase in Knoxville, TN starting Fall 2019.
Personally, I would assume it has something to do with opening the Knoxville campus. As I have said before, applying to COCA for a 50% class size increase and a new campus that you haven't finished building the year before accreditation review is a good way to guarantee that COCA
won't roll up in a year and say, "Tell us how it goes! See you in 10 years!" I suspect they want to keep a close eye on Knoxville during its first few years, and at the time of the accreditation review they still didn't have all the walls up at Knoxville campus, so I'm sure they found enough to ding them on accreditation standards.
But that's just a personal theory. I don't think COCA or LMU have said anything public as to what specific elements weren't up to par.
