There seems to be a lot of this going around. South Carolina State recently had its accreditation downgraded too.

KHOU of Texas reported.

Group puts Baylor College of Medicine on probation

An accrediting group cited more than a dozen administrative areas of concern in placing Baylor College of Medicine on probation, a downgrade that school officials hope will be lifted within two years.

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education made the formal notification Friday. The probation is based on deficiencies involving administrative processes and procedures, not instruction, the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1sMrdqR ) reported.

The president of the Baylor medical complex, Dr. Paul Klotman, says Baylor is still fully accredited and improvements have already been made.

“I am disappointed with the findings because I know they don’t represent Baylor or the quality education provided by our institution,” Klotman wrote the campus community. He subsequently held four town hall meetings on campus about the matter.

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, formed in 1942 by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association, accredits 158 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Under the group’s timetable, Baylor could be removed from probation by February 2016.

The accrediting group’s letter, provided to the newspaper by the school, says the action to put Baylor on probation was taken following a June 17 reconsideration hearing, at which the school appealed the recommendation in about 14 areas of concern.

Seven areas already have been fixed, three are in process of being updated and action plans are in development for the remaining four, he said.