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There's a University of Bristol in the UK, and there's also a Bristol University in California. If you're referring to the California school, their accreditation renewal was denied by ACICS, but has been temporarily reinstated pending a lawsuit.

Keep in mind that as of later 2016, ACICS itself lost its Department of Education status as a recognized accreditor (and when it was an approved national accreditor, they weren't the most respected, I'd say.)

So if this is the school in question, it likely was accredited and recognized by the DoE when your coworker attended, depending on when that was. But the accreditation isn't the most well regarded, even when it was more legitimate.