Southeastern University Thrown A Lifeline

Southeastern University, which has been an institution with an incredibly murky future since losing its accreditation last August, has finalized a long-negotiated deal with the Graduate School to reopen as a private institution specializing in continuing education. Southeastern's new overlords will likely use the name and campus to offer a broader mission, while trying to maintain at least some of the utility that the university had previously provided to District residents and international students. One big issue: the Graduate School doesn't currently hold accreditation rights, so Southeastern -- who had to turn away approximately 300 students last fall as it went under -- will be sitting in that transitional place between career advancement college and degree-awarding university, probably for some time. Similarly, the confusion about why Southeastern University is located in Southwest D.C. will, like the domestication of the dog, continue unabated.