- ACPE will not grant initial or renewed accreditation or provisional accreditation to a program offered by an institution, unless it provides to the Secretary, within 30 days of its action, a thorough and reasonable explanation, consistent with its standards, why the action of the other body does not preclude the granting of accreditation or provisional accreditation, if it knows, or has reasonable cause to know, that the institution is the subject of -
- A pending or final action brought by a State agency to suspend, revoke, withdraw, or terminate the institution’s legal authority to provide postsecondary education in the State;
- A decision by a recognized agency to deny accreditation or preaccreditation;
- A pending or final action brought by a recognized accrediting agency to suspend, revoke, withdraw, or terminate the institution’s accreditation or preaccreditation; or
- Probation or an equivalent status imposed by a recognized agency.
- If the ACPE learns that an institution that offers a program it accredits or provisionally accredits, is the subject of an adverse action by another recognized accrediting agency or has been placed on probation or an equivalent status by another recognized agency, ACPE must promptly review its accreditation or provisional accreditation of the program to determine if it should also take adverse action.
- ACPE must, upon request, share with other appropriate recognized accrediting agencies and recognized State approval agencies information about the accreditation or provisional accreditation status of a program and any adverse actions it has taken against an accredited or provisionally accredited program.
