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Cuesta College Is Threatened With Loss of Accreditation

February 6, 2012, 8:46 pm

Cuesta College, a two-year institution in San Luis Obispo, Calif., may lose its accreditation early next year, according to a February 1 letter from its accrediting agency. The college, which enrolls about 12,000 students at three campuses and online, has been ordered to “show cause” to the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges why its accreditation should not be revoked. The college has fallen short of various commission standards since 2002. The commission gave the college until October 15 to explain how it was meeting the standards, or the commission would take steps at its January 2013 meeting to terminate the college’s accreditation.

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  • 22280998

    Why wait 10 years to get tough on compliance? Should have moved on this when they had the second comprehensive review and discovered that the 2002 issues were still unresolved. How many additional students have suffered because of this?

  • jmwh7018

     Honestly, why on EARTH did this take over a decade to resolve?  The process needs some serious help before legislators take this as evidence that the Department of Ed can do it better.  Tales like this one make it difficult to disagree.

  • mindnbodybuilding

    Hubris?

  • http://twitter.com/nadiarl nadiarl

    If I remember correctly, the problem was that there aren’t enough administrators for the number of students. They can only offer so much in pay and lots of people would come and interview but no one would accept the post.

  • 11291104

    The instition’s recommendation, if any of you went to their web page to read it, concerned the need to develop an internal quality assurance system of data driven program review and review of mission, planning for improvement, and implementation of plans through links to resource allocation processes.  Instittutions seem to have a hard time assessing the effectiveness of their own processes and outcomes, collecting data on student outcomes and using analysis of the same  to adjust pedagogy and other institutional services or to try to improve institutional quality.  This institution just did not get it together, although it still may do so.

  • jmwh7018

     The letter cited failures in planning and assessment, lack of appropriate infrastructure and institutional planning and evaluation.  Administrator to enrollment ratio is part of that, but that must have been an extremely minor part of the overall problem.  It certainly WOULD be hard to find qualified administrators to to put their careers on the line to work at such a troubled campus, though, I’m sure.

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