The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges receives letters and documents from Campion, several professors and others at El Paso Community College. Letters complain of inappropriate intrusions by the board of trustees. The committee noted that the college did not respond in detail to the allegations.
Board members attend training sessions.
El Paso, situated along the booming, hard-tack Mexican border corridor, is the nation s 40th largest community college with a combined student enrollment of 25,000. Hundreds of miles to the northeast in the lush Carolinas, rural Robeson has an enrollment less than one-tenth of El Paso s. Mindful of the threat that de-accreditation can pose to a college and its community, both colleges are also desperately trying to find a way out of the accreditation danger zone. As in most cases, both colleges had a history of problems. El Paso Community College was first put on probation back in 1993 for non-compliance, but the warning was lifted the following year.