King’s College vows to reopen as accreditation expires

The King’s College, an evangelical liberal arts faculty in New York City that has struggled to pay its payments, vowed to reopen as its accreditation expired Thursday.

Accreditation certifies {that a} faculty meets tutorial requirements acknowledged by the Department of Education.

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education introduced final week that King’s College, which isn’t providing fall lessons, would lose its accreditation on the finish of August after failing to submit a “required substantive change request for institutional closure.”

In an announcement shared Thursday with The Washington Times, faculty leaders pledged to problem the choice as they search “a long-term solution” to maintain the college alive.

“The King’s College Board of Trustees and senior administration continue to contend for the College’s future and remain actively engaged in discussions regarding potential strategic alliances,” the assertion learn.

“King’s leadership appreciates the ongoing prayers and support of our community,” it added.

Historian Joseph Loconte, who taught Western Civilization and American international coverage at King’s College from 2009 to 2020, stated it might be “a great loss” if the college closed completely.

“The loss of the King’s College would mean there is no college in New York City devoted to transmitting the classical-Christian inheritance of the West to the next generation,” Mr. Loconte, a presidential scholar in residence at New College of Florida, instructed The Times on Thursday. “And that would be a tragedy, given the cultural importance and intense secularity of New York.”

According to the accrediting fee, the college didn’t replace its public monetary disclosures and pay its dues and charges.

The fee withdrew accreditation from King’s College on May 26, prompting the personal faculty to enchantment in June because it sought new monetary backers.

Last month, the fee stated it might “consider the institution closed and no longer operational” after King’s College introduced it might not maintain lessons within the fall semester.

The Christian faculty has undergone a number of transformations and monetary struggles since its 1938 founding in New Jersey.

The campus moved to Delaware in 1941 and to Briarcliff Manor, New York, in 1955.

After the college closed in 1994 amid monetary difficulties, the evangelical ministry Campus Crusade for Christ took management. King’s College reopened in 1999 in Manhattan and have become unbiased of Campus Crusade, now generally known as Cru, in 2012.