Schools accreditation at risk?

[bpigz]

I'll be attending community college this upcoming school year before transferring. I just found out today from a family member that my school has been placed on academic probation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Here is the article so you have a better understanding.

http://standardspeaker.com/news/commission-places-lccc-on-probation-1.1169961#axzz1SoMKWV3A

To be honest I am kind of worried that by some crazy chance they might end up losing it. I don't know if I should transfer to another community college in my county that is a bit of a haul each day (25-30 minutes) or stay enrolled here and travel less than 10 minutes each day. Any advice or similar stories?

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[godless]

Wow I am shocked LCCC might lose their accreditation! I only know a couple people who go there and they said it was a party school but I didn't know it was that bad....

I would be surprised if they actually lost their accreditation and I imagine the administration is doing everything to make sure the school remains accredited. The best person to discuss what would happen if the school loses their accreditation would be the school.

 

[TriagePreMed]

Shouldn't be a problem as long as the classes you are taking are accredited. I would imagine they would lose accreditation at the end of the semester, not the middle.

 

[bpigz]

I would be surprised if they actually lost their accreditation and I imagine
the administration is doing everything to make sure the school remains
accredited. The best person to discuss what would happen if the school loses
their accreditation would be the school.

Yeah, I am going to contact the school later today to see what would happen if they did lose it. I have also heard of a similar situation recently that had to do with LECOM and they seem to be doing fine now so who knows.

 

[DrMidlife]

They won't lose their accreditation. This is the normal process of oversight (a good thing) probably contending with budget cuts (a big fat thing lately). It's a relatively common thing for the accreditation committees to demand improvement when there's 10 years between approvals. It's a very, very big deal for an accreditation committee to pronounce a school deficient, and then it takes years of appeals etc to actually lose your accreditation. Accreditation warnings happen to universities & med schools too - RFU & GW were hit by this in the last decade.

Generally schools that lose accreditation are for profit. Non profit schools (public and private) have huge support: boards of trustees/regents, alumni, teachers & teachers unions, state reps, etc. An exception would be if you live in a county that gets cleaned out by unemployment - like maybe around Detroit - but in these cases the county tends to close a school, not wait for it to fall apart.

Best of luck to you.

 

[bpigz]

They won't lose their accreditation. This is the normal process of oversight (a
good thing) probably contending with budget cuts (a big fat thing lately). It's
a relatively common thing for the accreditation committees to demand improvement
when there's 10 years between approvals. It's a very, very big deal for an
accreditation committee to pronounce a school deficient, and then it takes years
of appeals etc to actually lose your accreditation. Accreditation warnings
happen to universities & med schools too - RFU & GW were hit by this in
the last decade.

Generally schools that lose accreditation are for
profit. Non profit schools (public and private) have huge support: boards of
trustees/regents, alumni, teachers & teachers unions, state reps, etc. An
exception would be if you live in a county that gets cleaned out by unemployment
- like maybe around Detroit - but in these cases the county tends to close a
school, not wait for it to fall apart.

Best of luck to you.

Thanks for the info. I looked into what it means when they place a school on academic probation and I am not worried anymore. It was surprising to find out the Commonwealth Medical College was just placed on probation too.

 

[DrMidlife]

Thanks for the info. I looked into what it means when they place a school on academic probation and I am not worried anymore. It was surprising to find out the Commonwealth Medical College was just placed on probation too.

New med schools go through probationary accreditation to full accreditation. Commonwealth is new. Probation is a step up for them, not a step down.

 

[bpigz]

I think this it's becase of a funding issue this time. It was a big thing on the news around here about a month ago. They just never referred to it as being on probation.