Dive Brief:
- City College of San Francisco has won a reprieve in its battle with accreditors, with a judge ruling that its accreditation cannot be revoked until after a trial.
- The ruling allows the school to continue to address the problems that caused the accreditors to threaten it with suspension in the first place, which the school says it is doing.
- A trial could come as early as summer and would decide whether the accrediting body acted within the law to move to close the school.
Dive Insight:
It's not that the school is too big to fail, exactly, but a closure would affect tens of thousands of students. The magnitude of a possible closure was not lost on the judge, who wrote: "Without accreditation, the college would almost certainly close and about 80,000 students would either lose their educational opportunities or hope to transfer elsewhere; and for many of them the transfer option is not realistic."