CHARLESTON, W.Va. —
West Virginia regulators have revoked the accreditation for Mountain State University’s nursing school, effective Aug. 31.The West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses announced the move on Thursday, a school spokesman confirmed.
Mountain State is based in Beckley, W.Va., but has a Martinsburg, W.Va., campus where there are several dozen nursing students.
MSU spokesman Andrew R. Wessels confirmed the state nursing board’s decision Thursday and said in a brief interview that the college would assist students who wish to transfer.
As of Jan. 26, there were 48 undergraduate students enrolled in MSU's nursing program at the Martinsburg campus and five graduate students, Wessels said in a Jan. 30 email.
School administrators had been granted an extension for its provisional accreditation in January. At the time, the state nursing board said it would yank the accreditation if major changes weren’t made.
The nursing program was placed on provisional accreditation in November 2010. MSU was cited then for a litany of problems.
They included a lack of administrative leadership, the loss of national nursing accreditation, failing to make required changes to course curriculum and failing to keep up-to-date student records regarding classes and their degree progress.
