Bryn Athyn College’s accreditation is reaffirmed after receiving warning last year
The small private Christian college in Montgomery County was warned last March by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education that its accreditation could be in jeopardy.
After receiving a warning last year, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church’s accreditation was reaffirmed this month, according to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, its accreditor.
“The institution is now in compliance” with standards on governing, leadership and administration, Middle States wrote in an action posted to its website this week.
The small, private Christian school in Montgomery County must submit another report by July 1, “demonstrating sustainability of implemented corrective measures,” the commission said.
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The college last March was warned its accreditation could be in jeopardy. That same month, the college cut its 11 varsity athletic programs and the equivalent of 20 full-time positions to cope with a mounting deficit and a decreasing endowment.
“This decision is a necessary step for our survival,” President Sean Connelly said in a message to the campus at the time. “This is hard. But the deeper injustice would be to ignore reality and jeopardize the future of our beloved college.”
Founded in 1877, Bryn Athyn enrolled 272 undergraduate students in fall 2023, according to U.S. News and World Report,
In its report to Middle States due in July, the school must show that it has “a legally constituted governing body that has sufficient diversity, independence, and expertise to ensure the integrity of the institution” and that it regularly evaluates the school’s chief executive officer.