South University's stepchild campuses of AI appear to have received a warning from SACS. The last sentence of this article does not identify the specific campuses, but it almost has to be the AI campuses. We will know something official soon enough, but more bad news for the company:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/10/brewton-parkers-accreditation-restored-woes-norfolk-state-and-edmc-campuses
http://www.sacscoc.org/December2014ActionsandDisclosureStatements.asp
This is the link to the Actions for SACS re: EDMC schools. Ai Houston, Miami, and Atlanta, as well as South University are on warning. Will this put a kink in the EDMC realignment plan?
Cat lady, read your link again. There are 6 accrediting bodies that are recognized by CHEA. HLC is one of them, so is SACS. What do you for EDMC? Admissions? Makes sense?
http://www.artinstitutes.edu/accreditation-and-licensing.aspx
Cat fancy. Here is a list of all of the Ai campuses and a list of who they are accredited by. You must be the one making these hard decisions!
http://www.chea.org/Directories/regional.asp
As you can see from this link all six regions are in the HLC.
Ummm...all regional accreditation, nca, sacs etc are HLC
SU was going through some re-accreditation visits this year so the warning could be related to that, too. Either way, it looks like bad news all the way around.
I work for an Ai that is accreditated By HLC. We were told that we would be switching to SACS because they were so much more lenient and would be less likely for any issues that we have run into with HLC. Looks like no one wants us anymore! Serves them right.
I agree with the previous post. Accreditation does not seem to be a priority anymore. I work for an AI that received a prestigious accreditation a few years back. There was a great deal of scrambling to fill out forms and exhortations to jump through the required hoops. Many faculty and administrators worked overtime to appease the accreditation authority. In the end, it was worth it because the college did achieve this worthy status. However, despite congratulatory speeches and much high fiving, EDMC has been virtually silent since. Significant numbers of those who worked on the accreditation committee were fired or encouraged to retire. Those that remain get little guidance. It's a little like an Olympic team that trained very hard to qualify only to be told, "Oh yeah, sorry about that. We don't do that race anymore."
This is more or less just a question of time, we'll see AI lose the accredition