Paine College receives 12-month warning sanction


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Paine could get additional year to fix financial problems
By Tracey McManus
Staff Writer
Friday, June 22, 2012 8:03 PM

Paine College could have an additional year to get its financial house in order if it does not come into compliance with its accrediting body by the end of its 12-month warning period, the accreditation association’s president said Friday.

Belle Wheelan, the president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges, said that sanctions are used as a tool to push schools to correct their mismanagement but that revoking a school’s accreditation is not the first choice.

“It’s not a good thing to have a sanction hanging over your head as an institution, so we want them to clean it up as quickly as they can,†Wheelan said, adding that schools cannot be out of compliance for more than two years. “We’re not trying to put people out of business; we’re trying to make them better.â€

Paine received a 12-month warning sanction Thursday from the association for breaking various compliance standards dealing with management and stability of finances.

Losing accreditation can have devastating consequences for schools, said Jan Wheeler, the University of Georgia associate director for accreditation in the office of academic planning.


http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/e...onal-year-fix-financial-problems?v=1340416780
 

What's interesting about this, both Morris Brown College and Paine College are Methodist Schools in Georgia. I wonder if there's something going on with the Methodist Church for this to be happening.
 
JAG89 said:
What's interesting about this, both Morris Brown College and Paine College are Methodist Schools in Georgia. I wonder if there's something going on with the Methodist Church for this to be happening.
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Small private HBCU's are taking a beating in general.
 
If they lose it they will be the third HBCU since 2000 to lose accredidation.
1. Morris Brown (lost in 2003. Reapplying in fall 2012)
2. St. Paul College (lost all athletics after spring 2011, lost accredidation this month)
 
tierre said:
If they lose it they will be the third HBCU since 2000 to lose accredidation.
1. Morris Brown (lost in 2003. Reapplying in fall 2012)
2. St. Paul College (lost all athletics after spring 2011, lost accredidation this month)
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And the third Christian based HBCU. Tougalou College another Christian based HBCU is currently on probation.
 
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They don't have the donor base and aren't getting those taxpayer funds. They are catching hell. Fisk will be in line soon if they don't get their act together.
 
JAG89 said:
And the third Christian based HBCU. Tougalou College another Christian based HBCU is currently on probation.
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Wow! I live in Jackson; I haven't heard or read anything about Tougaloo College being on probation.
 
jsupop33 said:
They don't have the donor base and aren't getting those taxpayer funds. They are catching hell. Fisk will be in line soon if they don't get their act together.
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Fisk is another Christian based HBCU. Maybe it's the sign of the times. The traditional Christian based church and HBCU are definitely not getting the support. IMO, Black people have moved away from the traditional Christian based organizations to the new Christian based Mega-churches that does not have any affiliation to a college or university.
 
BG said:
Wow! I live in Jackson; I haven't heard or read anything about Tougaloo College being on probation.
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http://www.browndailyherald.com/tougaloo-faces-reaccreditation-challenge-1.1868193?FORM=ZZNR7

18 SANCTIONED BY SOUTHERN ACCREDITOR

June 24, 2011 - 3:00am

By Doug Lederman

The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has put five colleges on probation, three because of financial instability and two because of questions about their institutional effectiveness, officials of the accrediting agency said Thursday. As has become common in this region, several of the punished institutions are historically black.

The regional accreditor placed or continued 13 other institutions on warning status at its just-concluded meeting, at least two of them -- including high-profile Miami Dade College -- because they could not document that they had sufficient numbers of full-time faculty members.

Some of the actions seemed predictable given the institutions' well-publicized woes in recent months. Saint Paul's College, which the association had placed on probation last year because of its continuing financial problems, was continued for another 12 months in that status -- the accreditor's most serious short of stripping accreditation -- for falling short of the agency's standards on financial resources, financial stability, institutional effectiveness of administrators and educational support services, and qualified administrative and academic officers, among others, said Belle S. Wheelan, president of the SACS college commission. The college has made a series of steps -- most recently ending its intercollegiate athletics program -- to improve its financial standing.

The other two institutions cited for financial instability are, like Saint Paul's, historically black colleges: North Carolina's Bennett College for Women and Tougaloo College, in Mississippi. Bennett has struggled for years with financial (and administrative) difficulties, but it was reaccredited by the Southern association in 2009. But the college ran afoul of the accreditor's standard on financial stability, said Wheelan.

Bennett's president, Julianne Malveaux, said in an e-mailed statement that the college had experienced "unprecedented expansion" in the last several years, and that she was disappointed that "in the midst of this phenomenal progress, SACS has chosen to place us on probation for several one-time occurrences that placed us in a difficult financial position in 2010." Bennett officials, she said, are confident that they will be able to demonstrate to the Southern accreditor that "the 2010 irregularities were just that, irregularities that are not part of our permanent fiscal picture or systemic in any fashion."

SACS placed Tougaloo on warning status in 2009, but reaffirmed its accreditation without sanction last June. But it, too, fell short of the financial stability standard, Wheelan said Thursday. "With a lot of these places, it's an up and down kind of thing," she said.

Beverly W. Hogan, Tougaloo's president, said via e-mail Thursday night that its officials could not "respond appropriately" to the SACS decision until they receive the official letter about the probation.


http://www.insidehighered.com/news/...ve_colleges_on_probation_13_on_warning_status

Tougaloo was placed on probation status just last year.
 
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JAG89 said:
Fisk is another Christian based HBCU. Maybe it's the sign of the times. The traditional Christian based church and HBCU are definitely not getting the support. IMO, Black people have moved away from the traditional Christian based organizations to the new Christian based Mega-churches that does not have any affiliation to a college or university.
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I don't think it is that. The Methodist church still has plenty of money and a lot of mega churches are AME. Simply put, these small private HBCU's with sub 1000 enrollments are not going to survive without donor pools. Another big problem is that their boards want to operate the school like a church.
 
jsupop33 said:
I don't think it is that. The Methodist church still has plenty of money and a lot of mega churches are AME. Simply put, these small private HBCU's with sub 1000 enrollments are not going to survive without donor pools. Another big problem is that their boards want to operate the school like a church.
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You can't run the school like you run the church. Just because the bishops and ministers know God does not carry over to the business world. Small schools have to be run like a business. Every dime coming in and going out must be accounted for.
 
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