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U.S. Ag Secretary returns to the Valley for town hall: Sonny Perdue, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, is returning to the San Joaquin Valley for a town hall meeting with local farmers next week.

Perdue will be hosting his meeting at the Merced County Fairgrounds in Los Banos a week from today. 

The former Georgian Governor has been ever-present in the Valley since his appointment to the USDA. Last year, he hosted a similar town hall at the World Ag Expo following its opening ceremonies.

RSVP is required to attend the event. More details can be found here.

Fresno State's Health and Human Services College faces uphill: In case you missed it, Fresno State's health department has two programs currently unaccredited.

The first, its nursing master's program was announced to have lost its accreditation on Wednesday after the college failed to provide sufficient documentation to the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

The second, revealed in March, was the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certificate program. Unlike the nursing master's program, this program operated without accreditation for a number of years before students reported being unable to receive certification from nursing licensure bodies.

Students in that program were offered a refund. Two students took the offer. Eight remained in the program.

A class action suit lingers: A former student in the practitioner program, Andrea Herington, filed a class action civil suit against Fresno State alleging breach of contract in April.

In her suit, she argues that graduates of the program put the university on notice to the lack of accreditation prior to enrolling students for the Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 sessions.