Historically Black Concordia College-Selma Regains Favorable Accreditation Status: When alumni of Concordia College in Selma, Ala., converged in late June on the school for their annual gathering, an enthusiastic round of cheers erupted at the group’s closing banquet as university President Rev. Dr. Tilahun M. Mendedo formally announced the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) had removed Concordia from “probation” status after approximately two years and given it a clean bill of health.
“Everyone was ecstatic and pleased,” recalls Phyllis Richardson, a Concordia alumna and director of Concordia’s freshman transitional programs.
The good news capped what many involved described as a gut wrenching three years of uncertainty at Concordia, a small Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod supported college in the middle of Alabama’s Baptist dominated Black Belt.
