The Higher Learning Commission issues a public disclosure notice (PDN) when it imposes a designation or sanction, issues a Show-Cause Order, 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. More information about each of these situations is available at Special Conditions for Monitoring. 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.

Current Public Disclosure Notices

Institutional Designations

• Walden University

On Notice

• Alderson Broaddus University
• Bethel College
• Kaskaskia College
• Morton College
• Ohio Christian University

On Probation

• Arkansas Baptist College
• Bacone College
• Kansas City Kansas Community College
• Ohio Valley University
• Saint Paul College-A Community & Technical College
• Wheeling University
• Wilberforce University

Removed From Sanction (past six months)

• Dodge City Community College
• East Central College
• Finlandia University
• Highland Community College (Illinois)
• Independence Community College
• Leech Lake Tribal College
• Luna Community College
• Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
• Malone University
• Vincennes University
• Westminster College (Missouri)

Voluntary Resignation of Accreditation or Candidacy (past five years)

• American Sentinel University
• Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
• Art Institute of Colorado, The
• Art Institutes International Minnesota
• Aquinas Institute of Theology
• Ashford University
• 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
• Jones International University
• Kendall College
• Knowledge Systems Institute
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago
• Lexington College
• MacMurray College
• Marygrove College
• Midstate College
• Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Phillips 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

Public Statements

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.

• Argosy University