June 2012 Accreditation Actions
and Public Disclosure Statements

June 2012 Accreditation Actions

At its meeting on June 21, 2012, the SACSCOC Board of Trustees took a number of actions regarding the accreditation status of applicant, candidate, and member institutions in its region.  (Click onto June 2012 Accreditation Actions.) The list does not include the names of institutions required only to submit additional monitoring reports unless the reviews resulted in a negative action.

June 2012 Public Disclosure Statements

The Commission on Colleges is authorized to post on its website 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 taken on June 21, 2012. 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’s Board 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.” Institutions reviewed December 2012 and removed from sanctions, or their sanction status have changed, have been deleted from the list below.

• Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama
• Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia
• Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg, Virginia
• Edison State College, Fort Myers, Florida
• Fundacion Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
• Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas
• Midland College, Midland, Texas
• Newberry College, Newberry, South Carolina
• Paine College, Augusta, Georgia
• Saint Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Virginia (Includes the Disclosure Statement prepared by SACSCOC and Formal Comments prepared by St. Paul's College in response to adverse action taken by SACSCOC)
• Southern University at Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana
• Victory University, Memphis, Tennessee