This all seems a bit startling. West Michigan University's standards appeared very respectable. After all, it was one of the 3 colleges that BA used, up till Sep 11, when BA stopped cadetships. WMU was up there with Oxford and Jerez.
With absolutely no knowledge of the actual situation, it seems to me that when a college like this stops offering a course, it's probably for one of 3 reasons:
1. They weren't attracting enough JAA students. Losing the BA contract might have been the final straw to make it uneconomic.
2. Operating in the USA, they had difficulty in attracting sufficient high-calibre JAA-qualified instructors.
3. They didn't feel that it was worth continuing in the face of JAA-style bureaucracy. They could offer other courses instead.
Now, it might have been none of those. As I said, I don't know the situation out there. But does anybody else? Is there any pprune correspondent who has some (genuine) insight into what caused them to make this decision? I would be most interested to know.