The college comprises of four universities: the Forbes School of Business, the College of Education, the College of Health, Human Services, and Science, and the College of Liberal Arts.
Ashford is authorize by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.
Ashford University already worked a physical grounds in Clinton, Iowa; it shut in 2016.
Roots: 1893–1918
Mount Saint Clare, around 1920
Ashford University's grounds was built up in 1893 as the Mount St. Clare Academy, a boarding and day school for young ladies. The thought for this school shaped when Father James A. Murray welcomed the Sisters of St. Francis to instruct in Clinton, Iowa. The new Mount St. Clare building was raised for this school in 1910 and stays being used through 2016.
Mount St. Clare College: 1918–1979
Seeing a requirement for advanced education in Clinton County and the encompassing range, the sisters established Mount St. Clare College in 1918.This human sciences organization was additionally an affirmed educator training school from 1932 to 1954. In 1942, 60% of the rustic instructors in Clinton County and 62% of the educators in the city of Clinton educational system had gotten all their preparation from Mount St. Clare College.
In 1950, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools initially certify Mount St. Clare College. The school then started to grow rapidly, and gained a religious circle building, new library, new exercise room, the Science Building, and Durham Residence Hall. The school inevitably got to be coeducational in 1967.
Going Four Years: 1979–2003
For the 1979–1980 school year, the school got endorsement for its initial four-year degree, an unhitched male's project in business organization. Amid that year, Mount St. Clare Academy converged with St. Mary's High School in Clinton, framing Mater Dei High School (now known as Prince of Peace Preparatory). With the space liberated by the foundation's merger, the school started to offer extra four-year programs. In 1997, the sisters got off grounds into their new mother house, The Canticle. In 1998, the Durgin Educational Center was opened, which included new athletic offices, including Kehl enclosure.
Franciscan University of the Prairies: 2003–2005
In 2003, Mount St. Clare College changed its name to The Franciscan University.At the same time, the college got endorsement to offer its first graduate degree on the web. In September 2004, the school changed its name to The Franciscan University of the Prairies keeping in mind the end goal to stay away from perplexity with comparably named schools.
Ashford University: 2005–2016
After a time of budgetary trouble, the college was bought by Bridgepoint Education in March 2005.After the fruition of the deal, the organization's name was changed to Ashford University.Sponsorship by the Sisters of St. Francis finished.
In spite of the fact that the college was territorially certify by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, it looked for provincial accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges ("WASC") in 2010.In June 2012, WASC denied beginning accreditation to Ashford University.Following WASC's disavowal of accreditation for being "deficient in a few zones, including low quantities of full-time workforce, high understudy dropout rates and inquiries regarding scholastic meticulousness," HLC requested extra data from Ashford before an October site visit.
In light of accreditation concerns, the school's trustees designated Richard Pattenaude as president in October 2012. Pattenaude is a previous chancellor of the University of Maine System who additionally served as executive of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, a local authorizing body.Although its underlying application to WASC was denied in 2010, its second application was acknowledged in 2013.In favoring accreditation, the WASC Commission Action Letter expressed "The Commission found that the University has reacted to Commission concerns and judges that it is presently in generous consistence with Commission measures." The WASC going to group noted in its last report that "the group found an establishment that has been in a general sense changed and whose society has been changed in noteworthy ways, including a movement from a business sector driven way to deal with a foundation focused on understudy maintenance and achievement".
In 2013, Ashford University reported a collusion with business distributer Forbes Media. Under the terms of the partnership, Ashford's College of Business and Professional Studies was renamed the Forbes School of Business at Ashford University.
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