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DATE: FRIDAY, April 12, 1991                   TAG: 9104120511
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: LYNCHBURG                                LENGTH: Short

LIBERTY SCHOOL MAY OWE $6 MILLION

The U.S. Department of Education has ruled that Liberty University's School of LifeLong Learning is a correspondence school, a decision that could cost the school more than $6 million, a department spokeswoman said Thursday.

The ruling holds the college liable for $2 million in penalties and makes Liberty responsible for buying from lenders $4 million worth of outstanding Guaranteed Student Loans, the spokeswoman said.

Liberty was sent a certified letter Monday telling officials that the School of LifeLong Learning, in which students study at home via videotape, is not an external-degree program as Liberty has maintained, but a correspondence school.

Students in correspondence schools are not eligible for the same level of financial aid as those in external-degree programs. - Associated Press 


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