This is the third in a series of Updates summarizing our Assurance Argument. These highlights cover Criterion 3: Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources, and Support. Qualified Faculty and Staff. In our hiring practices, both Human Resources and the various divisions and departments have multiple policies and processes to assure that... View Article
In this second of five Updates on highlights of our findings, I will focus on Criterion 2, Integrity. I hope that our findings in this area will help you as you prepare for meetings with the Site Visitors. Please spend some time to discuss how your area acts with integrity.... View Article
In the next few posts I’d like to go over particular highlights of our Assurance Argument findings. This is an expansion of the summary we presented in Session 2 of the Faculty and Staff Sessions on Friday Aug. 12, 2016. At one point or another in our Argument, all of the... View Article
Since the last Accreditation Update in mid-June we’ve reached several more important goals. We finished our Assurance Argument on June 29 (although tweaking remains an ongoing process), just two days short of our original “soft” deadline of July 1. Considering that we set that deadline more than 1 1/2 years ago,... View Article
Although some time has passed since you last received an Accreditation Update, that doesn’t mean we have finished and nothing is going on. Far from it! A small crew of the HLC Steering Committee has been working hard to revise and refine the Argument, reduce the word count, and strengthen the... View Article
