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

• Henderson State University

On Notice

• Taylor Business Institute

On Probation

• Cloud County Community College
• Eastern Gateway Community College
• Kansas City Kansas Community College
• Luna Community College
• Nazarene Bible College
• Ohio Valley University
• Southwest Baptist University
• Wheeling University

Removal of Sanction or Designation (past six months)

• Arkansas Baptist College
• Bacone College
• Bethel College
• Kaskaskia College
• Morton College
• Ohio Christian University
• Wilberforce University

Voluntary Resignation of Accreditation or Candidacy (past five years)

• American Sentinel University
• Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
• Ancilla College
• Art Institute of Colorado, The
• Brown Mackie College-Salina
• Central Christian College of the Bible
• Cincinnati Christian University
• Columbia College of Nursing, Inc.
• Grace University
• Harrington College of Design
• Holy Family College
• Illinois Institute of Art
• John Marshall Law School
• Kendall College
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago
• MacMurray College
• Marygrove College
• Midstate College
• Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Saint Gregory’s University
• Saint Luke‘s College of Health Sciences
• Santa Fe University of Art and Design
• Shimer College
• Southwest University of Visual Arts
• Trinity Lutheran Seminary
• University of Akron Wayne College
• University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
• University of Cincinnati-Clermont College
• University of the Rockies
• University of Wisconsin Colleges
• Urbana University
• Western International University