CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Issues of accreditation at West Virginia Business College are going to court. On Monday, Charleston Attorney Rusty Webb announced he was filing a class action lawsuit in Harrison County against the soon-to-be unaccredited school.
“I am tired of bad people doing bad things to good people,” Webb said on “580-LIVE with Charleston Mayor Danny Jones” heard on 580-WCHS, a MetroNews affiliate.
“These non-traditional students spent tens of thousands of dollars on what is a worthless diploma.”
Webb was referring to the 30 students who graduated from WVBC with various degrees just last week in Wheeling.
This leaves the 135th and last graduating class of the business college with degrees from an institution that will no longer be recognized effective on June 30.
“It probably was, at one time, a very good community-style college, but when greed gets in the way you just lower standards and hire whoever; you don’t really educate, you just take student loans and go,” Webb said.
There are about 100 affected students involved in the case now, according to Webb.
“That includes the ones who just graduated with worthless degrees, and those who are in the system somewhere in the two-year program.”
WVBC had operated sites in both Nutter Fort and Wheeling.