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About HLC Accreditation

For an overview of this accreditation process, please review the 2005 Self-Study and Site Visit presentation given by Bill Cheek, chair of the Higher Learning Commission Steering Committee. You will need PowerPoint plug-in to view this presentation.

Higher Learning Commission Mission Statement:
"Serving the common good by assuring and advancing the quality of higher learning."

Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

	A voluntary, non-governmental, regional accrediting organization founded in 1895
	Over 1,000 member institutions in 19 states
	Formerly known as the North Central Association (NCA)
	Changed to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in 2001

Higher Learning Commission accredits the institution not individual programs

Missouri State University—by various names—has been continuously accredited by the NCA/HLC since 1915

The Self-Study and 2005 site visit must address:

	Five Criteria
	Twenty-one Core Components
	Four Categories of Operational Indicators (annual reporting)

Five Criteria

	Mission and Integrity
	Preparing for the Future
	Student Learning and Effective Teaching
	Acquisition, Discovery, and Application of Knowledge
	Engagement and Service

HLC "Position Statements" must by addressed in Self-Study

	Commission Statement on Diversity
	Commission Statement on General Education
	Commission Statement on Assessment of Student Learning

New Criteria

	Missouri State University be among the first institutions to be evaluated using recently revised and adopted criteria
	Much different from previous criteria

Fundamental Shifts from Old Criteria and Previous Self-Studies

	From inputs and resources to results
	From teaching to teaching and learning
	From a look backward to a future focus
	From autonomy to connection and collaboration
	From uniformity/stratification to distinctiveness, flexibility, and differentiation

Previous self-studies were snapshots of the past ten years; the 2005 self-study will show that Missouri State University is poised for the future

	Must demonstrate that Missouri State University is future-oriented, learning-focused, connected, and distinctive
	New Criteria reflect what is happening at Missouri State University

How do we write a self-study that assures peer institutions of our distinctive quality and advances the work and purposes of Missouri State University?

	Use existing committees to fullest extent possible
	Minimize duplication in 2005 self-study and the next long-range plan Daring to Excel
	Daring to Excel will be submitted as Part One of self-study; Part Two will be the summary evaluation

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