Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 7, 1990 TAG: 9007070370
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LYNCHBURG LENGTH: Medium
"Their main concern is if you're going to continue growing exponentially and growing by thousands, you need to make sure you are able to keep up in faculty and staff," said Mark DeMoss, spokesman for Chancellor Jerry Falwell.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools also wanted Liberty to show how it would provide adequate library resources and faculty advisers for students, DeMoss told the Lynchburg News & Daily Advance for a copyrighted story Friday.
DeMoss said Thursday that association officials moved for probation in response to a report prepared by a fact-finding team. The team visited the fast-growing fundamentalist school in March, DeMoss said.
The association placed the school on probation during its June meeting.
DeMoss said the review period would not affect the school's overall accreditation.
The video service began in 1985 and has about 15,000 students, DeMoss said. In May, the operation listed 40 faculty members, 11 full-time and 29 part-time.
Students can earn undergraduate and graduate degrees by watching videotaped lectures given by Liberty professors and taking tests at home.
Liberty President A. Pierre Guillermin said the school is still fully accredited and degrees that students earn will not be affected by the probation.
DeMoss said the Southern Association gave the school a year to make changes, but school officials said they can meet the requirements sooner than that.
"Our people had already been looking at this prior to March and implementing a lot of changes," he said.
by CNB