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Spiralling Tensions at Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture School

United Kingdom Architecture News - Sep 02, 2014 - 13:35   4807 views

Spiralling Tensions at Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture School

Wright advises members of the Taliesin Fellowship, hard at work at their drafting boards.Ralph Crane/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

The architecture school run by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundationon Wednesday criticized a decision by the foundation’s board that will result in the school losing its accreditation.

Last week, the Higher Learning Commission, a Chicago-based nonprofit that accredits universities and colleges, told the school it would lose its accreditation in 2017. Two years ago, the commission changed its policy to require that “accredited institutions must be separately incorporated from sponsoring organizations.”

The foundations’s board could have opted to incorporate the school separately, but would risk losing control over its operations. Instead, the foundation’s board voted to forgo accreditation....Continue Reading

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