Keystone School accreditation in danger
Embattled Keystone School is going through a possible lack of accreditation by the tip of this 12 months, in accordance with a discover posted final week by the Center States Fee on Increased Schooling.
The non-public faculty in Pennsylvania has confronted mounting enterprise challenges lately.
The accreditor alleges that the faculty did not adjust to its customary in a number of areas, together with on governance and funds. MSCHE plans to strip Keystone’s accreditation by Dec. 31, although faculty officers indicated they intend to attraction the fee’s resolution.
“All of us knew that the method of rebuilding Keystone and altering our trajectory wouldn’t be simple. On the similar time, I really feel the adversarial motion taken by MSCHE considerably undervalues the progress the faculty has revamped the previous a number of months to strengthen our monetary state of affairs, rectify our weaknesses and transfer ahead,” Keystone School president John Pullo wrote in a letter shared with Inside Increased Ed.
Pullo pledged to “pursue each potential alternative as we put together our attraction.”
The potential lack of accreditation comes roughly seven months after MSCHE warned that Keystone School was “in peril of imminent closure” attributable to its precarious funds. Since then Keystone has trimmed its head rely and introduced plans to merge with a fledgling assume tank.
