Lipscomb said the reaffirmed accreditation should help increase student enrollment, which now stands at less than 600.
``I think it means that people will now believe that the cloud is gone,'' he said. ``For a lot of students, it hurt our efforts to recruit. They didn't know if we would be accredited.''
The college has played a unique role in Memphis' history and has graduated an illustrious list of alumni. It traces its beginnings to the 1860s and efforts to educate former slaves.
Before educational facilities were desegregated, LeMoyne-Owen produced graduates that helped build a black middle class in what's now a predominantly black city, and they took part in the political power shift that put Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, an alumnus, in office in 1991.
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