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In the middle of 2011, the regional accrediting agency for California threatened to yank approval from Trident University International unless the online for-profit institution could reassure the accreditor that it had overcome serious problems involving transfer students that raised questions about its integrity. Last month, the senior college commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges said it had been largely persuaded that Trident had turned the situation around. In a letter to the institution's president, Lucille Sansing, Ralph Wolff, president of the Western agency, said that after dropping TUI from "show cause" status (in which institutions are required to prove why their accreditation should not be stripped) in March 2012, the commission had taken the university off of probation last month, citing "significant progress" on a range of problem areas.
Trident, which was Touro University's online arm before being sold to a private equity firm in 2007, fell into disfavor with WASC after it failed to ensure that students transferring in had fulfilled their general education requirements and, more importantly, failed to tell the accreditor about the problem.
