EDINBURG — A year into the creation of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, its accreditation has been placed under a year-long-probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
The university inherited the accreditation status from its legacy institutions, UT-Pan American and UT-Brownsville, which were dissolved to become one under UTRGV in August 2015. And it is the timing of this transition that might be to blame for SACSCOC reprimand.
“We know this was a complex process and one that had really not been done before,” said UTRGV President Guy Bailey. “Anytime you have something of that complexity and a number of agencies involved there’s always a possibility for misunderstandings and for issues.”
Bailey said some of these issues seem to be connected to time constraints in the creation of the new university, which, according to legislation, had a startup date of Aug. 31, 2015.
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