While the College of the Marshall Islands had its latest accreditation report accepted by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, four of the six Pacific colleges were hit with sanctions by WASC.

CMI regained full US-accreditation two years ago and is now in the top echelon of Pacific community colleges.

According to a just-released WASC report on its June meeting, the CMI follow up report was “accepted” and an accreditation visit by a WASC team will not happen for five years, until 2015.

“The significance of the ‘acceptance’ is reaffirmation that CMI continues to meet the standards for accreditation of the Accrediting Commissions for Community and Junior Colleges of WASC, “said CMI President Dr. Kenneth Woodbury, Jr.