June 2011 Accreditation Actions
and Public Disclosure Statements

June 2011 Accreditation Actions

At its meeting on June 23, 2011, the Board of Trustees of SACS Commission on Colleges took a number of actions regarding the accreditation status of applicant, candidate, and member institutions in its region.  (Click onto June 2011 Accreditation Actions.) The list does not include the names of institutions required only to submit additional monitoring reports unless the review resulted in a negative action.

Also note that the Board of Trustees convened on December 5, 2011, and took action on the cases of those institutions reviewed in December 2010 and June 2011 that were required to submit additional reports for the December 2011 meeting. (Click onto December 2011 Accreditation Actions and Disclosure Statements for an update.)

June 2011 Public Disclosure Statements

The Commission on Colleges is authorized to post on its Web site Disclosure Statements for the following actions regarding the accreditation status of institutions: (1) institutions placed or continued on Warning or Probation, (2) institutions removed from accreditation or candidacy, (3) institutions denied initial candidacy or accreditation, (4) institutions denied authorization of a candidacy committee, and (5) special committees authorized separate from another Commission action.

Each of the institutions listed below has had a Disclosure Statement prepared based on the action of the Commission’s Board of Trustees taken on June 23, 2011. The Statement tells the status of the institution, the definition of the Commission’s Board action taken, the reason for the action, the next step in the institution’s review, and any other recent action taken by the Commission that can be disclosed.  All information disclosed in the following Statements is in accord with the Commission’s policy “Disclosure of Accrediting Documents and Actions of the Commission on Colleges.”

• Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina
• Bauder College, Atlanta, Georgia
• Bennett College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama
• Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia
• Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
• Florida Christian College, Kissimmee, Florida
• McDowell Technical Community College, Marion, North Carolina
• Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida
• Mount Olive College, Mount Olive, North Carolina
• Pamlico Community College, Grantsboro, North Carolina
• Saint Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Virginia
• Shelton State Community College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Southern University at Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana
• Texas A & M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas
• Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi
• The University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama
• Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia