Agency Grants Accreditation to Ave Maria U. Even as Its Own Fate Hangs in the Balance

The American Academy for Liberal Education has granted accreditation to Ave Maria University at its new location in Florida, raising the stakes in the accreditor's battle with the U.S. Department of Education over its own federal recognition.

The academy's board granted a full five-year accreditation to Ave Maria, a Roman Catholic institution that opened as Ave Maria College, in Michigan, in 1998 and moved to Florida in 2003. The university has been operating since then in a

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