St. Augustine’s University, a private, Christian HBCU in Raleigh, North Carolina, has had its accreditation temporarily restored after a years long, uphill battle to keep the university from closing for good.
In a July 22 press release, the university shared that the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the education accreditor recognized by the Department of Education unanimously overturned their 2023 decision to strip the HBCU’s accreditation status. It’s a rare move for the organization to reverse an accreditation decision – even rarer while the school is still in the midst of arbitration for unpaid debts.
St. Augustine’s University is a historically Black university founded in Raleigh in July 1867 by Episcopal clergy for the education of newly freed slaves. Since the early 2000s, the school has faced financial turmoil and rapid changes in leadership that has left its future unstable.In February of this year, interim president Dr. Marcus Burgess shared an email with university …