For-profit Clovis university suspends pharmacy program after pre-accreditation denial
Yesenia Amaro
March 7, 2022
California Health Sciences University has suspended a pharmacy doctorate program at its for-profit school in Clovis after failing to obtain pre-accreditation.
The program welcomed its first cohort of students in 2014, but never gained accreditation and will now close after 2024. CHSU is owned by the Assemi family whose members are major developers in Fresno.
In August 2020, pharmacy students learned they wouldn’t be able to attend classes, after all, following the withdrawal of CHSU’s precandidate status for accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. The decision affected 44 students who would have been part of the 2024 graduating class. At the time, the impacted students were getting help to attend other pharmacy schools in the state. It’s unknown how many of them gained slots in other schools.
