Accreditation

When looking into schools that have lost accreditation, the programs that came up the most were the nursing programs. There were several stories of universities losing accreditation for their programs, including one in Scranton, and one in Cincinnati. This is a hard situation to find yourself in, whether you’re part of the faculty or one of the students.

There are several things that can lead to a loss of accreditation, including viloation of the standards for the program in question. However, issues such not having enough faculty members for the size of the student body, teachers who don’t have the right education to be instructing, and inappropriate relations between faculty and students.

As a student, a loss of accreditation can mean a number of things, depending on where you are at in the program. If you have already graduated, and the school was accredited when you finished your degree, you shouldn’t have any issues. However, if you are mid program and the accreditation is taken away, continuing on and graduating from that institution will leave you with a degree that you won’t be able to use. Most students transfer out at that point and hope that most of the classes they have already completed are transferable.

With slashes in funding that is being offered to some of the colleges, it can be tough to fully staff the programs, or to be able to afford to pay someone with the educational background needed to teach at an accredited institution – both factors that can lead to that loss of accreditation. As a result, some schools are left between a rock and a hard place.

Accreditation