Because the 2023-24 educational 12 months ends, the troubles at Virginia College of Lynchburg proceed to mount as a Christian faculty governing physique handed down disciplinary motion towards the varsity.
Final week, the Transnational Affiliation of Christian Schools and Faculties (TRACS) introduced VUL was positioned on accreditation probation on April 22, citing the establishment’s “non-compliance with the Accreditation Requirements, TRACS insurance policies and procedures or any relevant Federal Rules is important and / or issues a number of of the Accreditation Requirements related to an Institutional Eligibility Requirement.”
The assertion continues that VUL’s failure to fulfill requirements “rises to the extent the place the establishment’s capability to satisfy its mission or to offer a top quality instructional expertise in step with that related to an accredited post-secondary establishment is in query.”
Virginia College of Lynchburg was present in violation of TRACS requirements 11.2 (Monetary Operations) and 17.12 (Title IV Participation). The college should submit its June 30, 2023, monetary audit and a “plan for operations by way of a restricted money circulate setting and doc accessible reserves to hold [the plan] out” to TRACS no later than Sept. 1.
If VUL doesn’t adjust to TRACS’ ruling, the governing physique has choices, together with a 12 months of probation, a six-month extension of that probationary interval, a “Present Trigger” penalty, or TRACS can “take Antagonistic Motion towards the establishment.”
TRACS’ findings had been submitted on the heels of an earlier accreditation warning reported by HBCU Sports activities in December. Additionally in December, former VUL operating backs coach and recruitment particular Doe Edwards accused the Dragons’ soccer program, particularly head coach and athletic director Tim Newman, of economic impropriety and verbal abuse in direction of gamers and employees.
