CHEYENNE, WYOMING - Laramie-based Newport International University plans to appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court its lawsuit over Wyoming's new university accreditation law.
The school maintains that the state Department of Education can't require it to become accredited. But that's not what state District Judge Jeffrey Donnell ruled last month, when he sided with the education department in the civil case.
Donnell pointed out that doctors who want to practice in Wyoming are required to have graduated from an accredited medical school. Department spokesman Tim Lockwood says the state is looking forward to defending its position before the Wyoming Supreme Court, should it come to that.
Newport International has some 23-hundred students at 17 campuses around the world. The school says that its nontraditional setup makes getting accredited difficult.