Subject: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

• The Mighty Quinn (Well, Mightier)

  November 19, 2007

• School's out

  November 13, 1997

• The Few, the Proud, the Battered

  December 25, 1997

• President of Paul Quinn College on the Loss of Accreditation: "It is Not Time to Write Paul Quinn's Obituary." Students Say: "It Sucks."

  Kimberly ThorpePaul Quinn College president Michael SorrellPresident Michael Sorrell of Paul Quinn College earlier this afternoon addressed a room full of anxious students, alumni and curious reporters regarding news that Paul Quinn College has lost its accreditation. The news broke yesterday after Sorrell received a phone call from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools "to inform me that they had voted to remove us from their membership," he said. However, Sorrell stated, he has yet

  June 26, 2009

• Head of the United Negro College Fund Blasts Decision to Pull Paul Quinn's Accreditation

  Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College FundOn Friday, Kimberly spent the afternoon on the campus of Paul Quinn College, which is appealing the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' decision to yank the school's accreditation; said president Michael Sorrell, "It is not time to write Paul Quinn's obituary." This morning, Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, seconded that emotion and then some with a statement that condemns the SACS

  June 29, 2009

• A Week After Losing Its Accreditation, the Fate of Paul Quinn College Still Up in the Air

  Kimberly ThorpePaul Quinn College president Michael SorrellMore questions than answers remain about the future of Paul Quinn College a week after its president announced the institution's loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Michael Sorrell last Friday explained to gathered students, alumni and reporters that he would be unable to discuss specifics until he received a formal letter from SACS detailing its decision. Sorrell said only that college officials

  July 3, 2009

• Paul Quinn College Supporters Take Fight to Keep the Doors Open to the Internets

  ​When last we heard word from the campus of Paul Quinn College, local and state legislators had gathered to voice their unconditional support for the college stripped of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in late June. While the school works through the process of appealing the revocation, with the assistance of attorney Bill Brewer of Bickel & Brewer, a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to a Web site dedicated to saving the 137-year-old instit

  July 30, 2009

• Southern Association of Colleges Denies Paul Quinn College's Accreditation Appeal

  ​The president of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools just called Unfair Park with news concerning Paul Quinn's accreditation status. Says Dr. Belle Wheelan, "The appeal panel did uphold the decision the commission had made." In other words, Paul Quinn will remain unaccredited. The decision comes two months after the SACS has originally removed Paul Quinn from its membership list, citing among the reasons the school's debt and a lack of funding.Wheelan explains that Paul Quinn now has

  August 24, 2009

• Paul Quinn's President is Defiant in Wake of Ruling: "There is No Doomsday Scenario."

  Kimberly ThorpePaul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell​Turns out, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell was available to talk to us today, following the news that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools refused to reinstate the the 137-year-old institution's accreditation. Not surprisingly, Sorrell was defiant in the wake of the decision: "When we went down this path, we knew that this was a possibility," Sorrell says, referring to a possible date in federal court, should

  August 24, 2009

• Extra Credit: Paul Quinn's Federal Lawsuit

  As expected, Paul Quinn College is making good on its threat to take the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools all the way to federal court for tossing its accreditation. Two days after the SACS denied Paul Quinn's appeal, the 137-year-old school sued the association in Atlanta federal court, claiming that its "improper act could be the College's 'death knell.'" Below, as always, is the 60-page complaint.Paul Quinn v. SACS

  August 26, 2009

• Paul Quinn's Accredited Again! For Now.

  ​So agreed the respective parties and ordered the federal judge in Georgia who's handling the college's lawsuit against the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which stripped the 137-year-old Paul Quinn College of its membership back in June. However, the school remains on double-secret probation pending the outcome of case. As always, the ruling is below.Update at 11:08 a.m.: Just after I posted this, we received a statement from Bill Brewer, the attorney representing Paul Quinn, in

  August 27, 2009

• Paul Quinn Starts Semester With Small Number of Students But a Large Pile of Cash

  ​Struggling to remain viable since losing its Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation this summer, Paul Quinn College yesterday announced a major fund-raising milestone. The historic black college has raised more than $1 million since July, when the Texas Legislative Black Caucus rallied behind the foundering 137-year-old institution. School officials, who this week welcomed a mere 150 students, say that's the most Paul Quinn has collected in a decade. "Our goal was $1 mill

  October 6, 2009