The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has upheld an accrediting association’s decision to withdraw the accreditation of Hiwassee College, a two-year United Methodist institution in Madisonville, Tenn., for having inadequate financial resources.
In a ruling issued on Monday, a three-judge panel of the appellate court unanimously upheld a lower-court order last year that was mostly in favor of the accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The appellate judges said that the Southern association had not denied the college due process in its accreditation action, taken in 2004. —Charles Huckabee
