California Opens Hearing on Olivet University Future as Feds Circle
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ACalifornia tribunal began hearings Monday on the fate of Olivet University, a college founded by the leader of a religious sect that is beset by criminal probes and lawsuits and is under growing media scrutiny.
California’s Board of Private Postsecondary Education has accused Olivet of 14 violations of education regulations and moved to shut down the college, which has its main campus in the High Desert town of Anza.
California’s attorney general, acting on behalf of the Board of Private Postsecondary Education, has petitioned the state’s Department of Consumer Affairs to close Olivet University — or revoke its permission to operate — over the alleged violations of education regulations. Judge Debra Nye-Perkins is presiding over the hearing, which is expected to end on Wednesday. Deputy Attorney General Dionne Mochon represented the regulators.
“We are fighting to keep our school open,” said Walker Zheng, one of two Jang disciples who represented Olivet at the hearing. Olivet was not represented by an attorney.
This effort to close the university began when California education investigators made an unannounced visit to the Anza campus on November 15, 2022. Investigators say they found evidence that Olivet was teaching substandard courses with unqualified teachers to a student body that matched neither academic records reported to regulators nor the university’s own financial data. Similar allegations have already led regulators in eight states and territories to shutter Olivet campuses or begin reviews of the college.
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