Ten HBCUs Get Accreditation Reaffirmed, Two Placed on Warning Status: Ten HBCUs across the South had their accreditation reaffirmed Tuesday for another 10 years by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges, the principal accreditation group for colleges across the region.
Two major colleges—Fisk University and Tennessee State University, both in Tennessee—were placed on “warning” status, a position that leaves their accreditation intact pending resolution of issues SACS raised during their review process. Warning is one step short of probation, a rating that could lead to a school losing accreditation.
Stillman College, a small private historically Black school in Alabama, was denied reaffirmation.
The SACS decisions were announced in Louisville late Tuesday as the Commission completed four days of meetings built around its annual convention.
