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The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has opted to keep the American Intercontinental University on probation for a second year.

In a press release - AIU says improvements can be seen in the following:

   --   Expanding the breadth and depth of leadership in the

         university's central administration

    --  Improving admissions policies and procedures to better align

        with the university's mission and integrity statements

    --  Transforming the university's admissions culture to better

        focus on service to prospective students

    --  Strengthening university decision-making structures to  

        provide for democratic processes and assure faculty

        involvement

    --  Engaging a more proactive governing board, which established
        guiding integrity standards for the institution and a zero
        tolerance policy for non-compliance

SACS says - it's not enough. keep at it. You have one more year to completely clean up your act.

A school can keep its accreditation for two years while on probation. If the school does not clean up its act within the two year time frame...it will lose the accreditation and go back to zero.

AIU is owned by Career Education Corporation of Hoffman Estates, IL.

I have a friend that I respect who was appointed president of one of the AIU schools. If it can be cleaned up, it will be.

As for the rest of CEC, I am not so confident.

What do you think?