Board To Review MSU Accreditation

{Beckley, West Virginia}...The state nursing board plans to review Mountain State University's accreditation after the school's nursing program lost its national accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission in October 2010, and another national accrediting body, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, denied the private university's bid for accreditation in November. The West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses placed the nursing program on provisional accreditation in November 2010, saying university officials were required to maintain, at a minimum, the current number of full-time faculty and staff to correct deficiencies, which included a lack of strong leadership. Laura Rhodes, the board's executive director, says four nursing faculty members left on December 16th.