HLC- Regional Reaccreditation

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HLC- Regional Reaccreditation
Reaccreditation under Open Pathways

• Dr. Joseph Frizado
• Vice Provost for Academic Operations Assessment

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Regional Accreditation

• North Central-Higher Learning Commission
• 10 years
• Self-study
• 2 years to produce
• Hundreds of pages
• Resource Room
• New methodology Open Pathway

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Why Accreditation?

• Ensures transferability of course credits
• Assures colleges and employers that a student's
  education meet acceptable levels of quality
• Allows students access to federal financial aid

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Open Pathway

• Two components
• Quality Initiative
• Assurance Document

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Quality Initiative

• New proposal/project to improve institutional
  quality
• Original proposal identified two areas
• Enrollment Management and General Education
• HLC Consultants visited Mar. 2010
• Expand the student populations for BGSU
  enrollment and implement programs to recruit them
  and retain them to successful degree completion.
• University Learning Commons

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Assurance Document

• Replaces the self study
• Moved to an online process
• Requires answering a series of prompts to address
  five major criteria
• New criteria

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Criteria

• Mission
• Integrity Ethical Responsible Conduct
• Teaching Learning Quality, Resources, and
  Support
• Teaching Learning Evaluation and Improvement
• Resources, Planning, and Institutional
  Effectiveness

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Federal Compliance

• Credits, program length and tuition
• Student complaint process
• Transfer policies
• Verify student identities (distance)
• Title IV information
• Institutional Disclosures on Advertising/Recruitme
  nt Materials
• Relationships with other Accrediting Agencies
• Public Notice of Evaluation Visit

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Title IV Information

• General programs findings
• Financial Responsibilities requirements
• Student loan default rates
• Campus Crime information
• Student Right to Know
• Satisfactory Progress/Attendance Policies
• Contractual relationships
• Consortial relationships

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Campus Visit

• Assurance Argument Website is closed on March
  15th
• BGSU Documents available via web to HLC
• Campus Visit April 15th 16th
• Specific meetings
• President
• Board of Trustees
• Faculty Senate leadership
• Requested clarifications
• Open Forum Public meetings (faculty, staff,
  students and all other interested parties)

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Participating in the Process

• Federal Notification- email/letter directly to
  HLC
• Comments on draft
• During the visit
• Public fora on Criteria
• Drop-in sessions for any general comments