1. HLC- Regional Reaccreditation
Reaccreditation under Open Pathways
Dr. Joseph Frizado
Vice Provost for Academic Operations & Assessment

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

3. 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

4. Open Pathway Two components Quality Initiative Assurance Document
Shorter term improvement project
Assurance Document
Demonstrates continued best practices/improvement
Replaces self-study and resource room
Provides evidence of federal compliance

5. Quality Initiative
New proposal/project to improve institutional quality
Original proposal identified two areas
Enrollment Management and General Education
HLC Consultants visited Mar. 2010
Chose University Learning Commons as our project
Report was submitted and approved Fall 2012.

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

7. Criteria Mission Integrity: Ethical & Responsible Conduct
Teaching & Learning: Quality, Resources, and Support
Teaching & Learning: Evaluation and Improvement
Resources, Planning, and Institutional Effectiveness

8. Assurance Document HLC website is very limited access
A draft of our document was made available on BGSU website Feb. 25
Comments/suggestions were incorporated
Final version was locked on March 15
Final version (without links) made public April 1

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

10. 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

11. 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)
Median is 7

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