The University of Virginia got a stern warning today from the body that provides its academic accreditation, in response to the controversy last summer in which the school’s Board of Visitors attempted to remove President Teresa A. Sullivan.

The Washington Post reports that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, which reviews schools in Virginia and 10 other states, said U.Va.’s integrity had been “compromised” when Rector Helen E. Dragas, who leads the board, engineered a move to bounce Sullivan from her office.

Sullivan’s popularity with the university’s faculty, staff and students led the campus to burst into protest in the middle of the summer; after two weeks of reactions, including graffiti being painted on Thomas Jefferson’s famed rotunda at the heart of the Charlottesville campus, Sullivan was reinstated.

Although the accreditation group’s decision only constitutes a warning, it can often be followed by a school being put on probation. Accreditation, or lack thereof, impact’s a college’s academic reputation and its ability to receive federal grants.