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Morris Brown students weighing options

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Posted 7:39AM on Wednesday 11th December 2002 ( 22 years ago )
ATLANTA - Students at Morris Brown College are considering their options after learning that the school has lost its accreditation. <br> <br> The 117-year-old historically black college learned Tuesday that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools stripped Morris Brown&#39;s accreditation. <br> <br> The decision - if it stands - means the school will not get federal financial aid that 80 percent of its students receive. That could force Morris Brown to close its doors permanently. <br> <br> The school had been waiting months for the decision. <br> <br> The federal government gives Morris Brown $8 million a year for financial aid. The school has been dealing with mounting financial debt, estimated at more than $23 million. <br> <br> The debt grew in recent years as the school&#39;s enrollment expanded without additional housing. That forced the school to pay to house students in hotel rooms and to bus them to campus. <br> <br> Also losing its accreditation was Mary Holmes College, historically a school for black women in West Point, Mississippi. Grambling State University in Louisiana, also an historically black institution, will continue on probation for another year. <br> <br> Meanwhile, The president of Morris Brown College says the school is committed to staying open and will appeal the decision. College president Charles Taylor said the process could take several months.<br> <br> The Atlanta-based Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the nation&#39;s six regional higher education accrediting agencies, covering more than 800 schools in eleven Southern states.

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