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 affiliation 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

• Wheeling University

On Notice

• Alderson Broaddus University
• Bethel College
• Dodge City Community College
• Finlandia University
• Kaskaskia College
• Morton College
• Ohio Christian University
• Vincennes University

On Probation

• Arkansas Baptist College
• Bacone College
• Leech Lake Tribal College
• Luna Community College
• Ohio Valley University
• Saint Paul College-A Community & Technical College
• Wilberforce University

Removed From Sanction (past six months)

• East Central College
• Highland Community College (Illinois)
• Independence Community College
• Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
• Malone University
• Westminster College (Missouri)

Voluntary Resignation of Affiliation With HLC (past five years)

• 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
• 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