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CHEA Conference Update
Regional
Accreditors Adopt Common Accord
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Regional Accreditors Adopt Common Accord
A major landmark has been
reached in creating agreements to assure consistent levels of quality
in higher education offered by institutions that are expanding across
the boundaries of regional accreditors. Each of the American regional
accrediting commissions has adopted the same policy to assure the quality
of institutions of higher education that operate sites in more than
one region. This shared policy will provide fair and efficient review
of institutions, wherever in the United States they might choose to
open an off-campus site/operation.
The policy balances the need of growing institutions
to be accredited by a single agency with the interests of local institutions
and the public to make sure that colleges and universities from other
regions are reviewed using similar standards. In order to accomplish
this, the accreditor of an institution will accredit all of its off-campus
sites/operations, but when one of them is located in another region,
that regional commission will be afforded the opportunity to participate
in the review of that site/operation, including sending visiting team
members and voting on team recommendations. Input from the region in
which the off-campus site/operation is located will be considered in
the final accreditation action taken by the accreditor of the parent
institution.
The institutional accreditors have also each
adopted a policy that defines a separately accreditable institution.
This policy will assist in determining when a branch campus operating
in a region other than that of the parent institution would be accredited
by the region in which it is located.
Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions September 18, 2000
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