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Associated Press - June 26, 2009 2:55 AM ET
HOUSTON (AP) - Two historically black Texas colleges just received news that will affect their futures and those of their students.
Texas Southern University, which has battled financial and management problems, was taken off probation yesterday by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the university's accrediting agency.
The president of the SACS' commission on colleges, Belle Wheelan, said the board voted to lift the probation after Texas Southern President John Rudley and TSU administrators presented evidence about improvements at the school
Paul Quinn College, a small college in Dallas, plans to appeal a decision removing its accreditation.
Wheelan cited Paul Quinn's debt and a lack of funding, planning, assessment and student learning outcomes in the accreditation decision.
Colleges can't award diplomas without accreditation in Texas and an unaccredited school's students can't receive federal or state financial aid.
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