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)