Public Disclosure Notices and Public Statements
The Higher Learning Commission issues a public disclosure notice (PDN) when it imposes or removes a sanction or a Show-Cause Order, assigns or removes an institutional designation, denies an application for Change of Control, Structure or Organization, or takes an adverse action on an institution, including withdrawal of accreditation. A PDN is also posted when an institution voluntarily resigns its accreditation or candidacy with HLC. The PDN includes a history of the institution’s relationship with HLC, the nature of the action, and a brief analysis of the situation that prompted the action, as well as next steps in review and correction, if applicable.
HLC also posts public statements to correct or confirm a media report, to respond to frequent inquiries from the public or to address notable institutional matters in the public eye.
Current Public Disclosure Notices
Institutional Designations
- Hannibal-LaGrange University (Missouri)
- Henderson State University (Arkansas)
On Notice
- Taylor Business Institute (Illinois)
On Probation
- Cloud County Community College (Kansas)
- Eastern Gateway Community College (Ohio)
- Kansas City Kansas Community College (Kansas)
- Luna Community College (New Mexico)
- Nazarene Bible College (Colorado)
- Northwestern College (Illinois)
- Ohio Valley University (West Virginia)
- Pontifical College Josephinum (Ohio)
- Southwest Baptist University (Missouri)
- Wheeling University (West Virginia)
Removal of Sanction or Designation (past six months)
- Arkansas Baptist College (Arkansas)
- Bacone College (Oklahoma)
- Bethel College (Kansas)
- Kaskaskia College (Illinois)
- Morton College (Illinois)
- Ohio Christian University (Ohio)
- Wilberforce University (Ohio)
Voluntary Resignation of Accreditation or Candidacy (past five years)
- American Sentinel University (Colorado)
- Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Indiana)
- Ancilla College (Indiana)
- Art Institute of Colorado, The (Colorado)
- Brown Mackie College-Salina (Kansas)
- Central Christian College of the Bible (Missouri)
- Cincinnati Christian University (Ohio)
- Columbia College of Nursing, Inc. (Wisconsin)
- Grace University (Nebraska)
- Harrington College of Design (Illinois)
- Holy Family College (Wisconsin)
- Illinois Institute of Art (Illinois)
- Itasca Community College (Minnesota)
- John Marshall Law School (Illinois)
- Kendall College (Illinois)
- Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago (Illinois)
- Lincoln College (Illinois)
- MacMurray College (Illinois)
- Marygrove College (Michigan)
- Mesabi Range College (Minnesota)
- Midstate College (Illinois)
- Northern Baptist Theological Seminary (Illinois)
- Rainy River Community College (Minnesota)
- Saint Gregory’s University (Oklahoma)
- Saint Luke‘s College of Health Sciences (Missouri)
- Santa Fe University of Art and Design (New Mexico)
- Shimer College (Illinois)
- Southwest University of Visual Arts (Arizona)
- Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Ohio)
- University of Akron Wayne College (Ohio)
- University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (Ohio)
- University of Cincinnati-Clermont College (Ohio)
- University of the Rockies (Colorado)
- University of Wisconsin Colleges (Wisconsin)
- Urbana University (Ohio)
- Vermilion Community College (Minnesota)
- Western International University (Arizona)