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Accreditation agency extends time for Guilford College to address financial issues

A college accrediting bureau has placed Guilford College on a form of probation concerning its financial issues.

A post by Guilford College President Kyle Farmbry says the university has taken steps to improve its financial management, like hiring an auditing firm experienced in higher education accounting and implementing Workday, a financial management and human resources software program.

Farmbry says a cyberattack on the university last year led to significant unexpected expenses and contributed to a budget deficit.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges is the accrediting body for institutions of higher learning in 11 Southern states.

According to the organization’s guidelines, probation "for good cause" extends the accreditation of a school that has served two consecutive years of probation.

It’s granted to institutions that have addressed issues of noncompliance, shown that it has the potential to remedy all deficiencies, and can assure the accrediting board that it's unaware of any other reasons why it shouldn't be allowed to continue on probation.

Farmbry says Guilford College has a year to satisfy the requirements and that the school maintains its accreditation.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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