Tuskegee University—the private historically Black college in Alabama that was founded by Booker T. Washington—is no longer under an accreditation warning by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Warnings are given to institutions for a number of reasons ranging from financial to academic. Tuskegee’s citations were for fiscal stability, financial aid audits, and student learning outcome assessments.
Removing the warning means that the school is no longer at risk of losing its accreditation, which could happen after an institution has received a warning and is placed on probation.
The news of the warning lift comes in the wake of the decision by Tuskegee’s board of trustees to part ways with its current president, Dr. Brian L. Johnson, when his contract expires at the end of the month.
Johnson was appointed in 2014, a year before the school received the warning, but sources at the university have said that the problems have persisted for some time.
Dr. Charlotte P. Morris, who previously served as interim president in 2010, will assume the top post on July 1.
