Budget woes threatening proposed medical school
The rejection of the University of California, Riverside’s proposed medical school by a national accrediting body has government and health care officials scrambling to firm up financing commitments for the project. But even those efforts may not be enough to convince the accrediting board that California’s ongoing budget crisis will not affect long-term funding for the school. The accreditation is key for the university to start recruiting students for its scheduled opening in the fall of 2012… UCR officials said the national accreditation committee balked on moving forward with the medical school’s preliminary accreditation over fears that California’s commitment to paying for the project may not survive the budget crisis
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by K Kaufmann, The Desert Sun.