In 1980, the college, with seven branches throughout Michigan, severed its ties with the church and changed its mission to serve needy students.Burd, S. (1997, May 9).
It had campuses at Cedar Springs, Flint, Grand Rapids (School of Hair Design/ Business) and Detroit.
Earlier in the 1990s Jordan College had been involved in litigation regarding claims of mismanagement of federal student aid dollars.
By the 1990s it was faced with charges of fraud, although it was claimed by Carl Levin among others, that Jordan was just suffering from hard economic times.
[2] However it appears some individuals, specifically one time trustee James Moored, had been involved in outright fraud.