The mission of the Accreditation Steering Committee is to coordinate a comprehensive institutional self study, the preparation of the self-study report, and the site visit that are required for the 2005-06 review of CMU by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association (NCA) of Colleges and Schools in a manner that will lead to full reaccreditation of CMU.

The Accreditation Self-Study Steering Committee will coordinate the gathering of relevant information, the analysis, and the preparation of a summary of the findings. These will be presented as CMU's Self-Study Report.

 

 

The committee's work will be evaluated on how well it met the following:

A self-study report that is internally useful and acceptable to the Higher Learning Commission.

Result:  A comprehensive self-study report was submitted to the Higher Learning Commission in September 2005.  The CMU report has been identified by the HLC as one to be displayed as a model at the 2006 HLC Annual Meeting.

 

A site visit that results in a recommendation for continuing accreditation for the maximum ten year period and generates useful advice for improving CMU.

Result: The visitor consultant-evaluators recommended accreditation for a full 10-year term with no required interim visits or reports.  They also provided a report based largely on the special emphasis chapter giving much useful advice.