“Most students in general are not aware of the impact of accrediting decisions,” said Campos, who also served as student trustee for the Los Angeles Community College District. “If the college loses accreditation, I’ll lose transfer credits, so I’ll need to find a way to line up everything in one year in case that happens.” The warning issued to Mission is the mildest of the possible penalties. The college will remain accredited pending a follow-up report due by March 2014. But in a raft of actions earlier this month, the panel made the rare decision to revoke accreditation from City College of San Francisco in July 2014 (the college is appealing) and issued warnings to Los Angeles Valley, Orange Coast and six other campuses. Sanctions were removed from West Los Angeles and Harbor colleges and seven other campuses.

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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.

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