Pathways Construction Project: Proposed Process for Continued Accreditation

The Higher Learning Commission’s multi-year Pathways Construction Project was introduced to the membership at the 2009 Annual Meeting. The Project proposes to separate the continued accreditation process into the Assurance Process and the Improvement Process. Watch the Web site, your email, and other communications for updates.

• Join an electronic response group or future e-Task Force: Send an e-mail to pathways@hlcommission.org

To meet a US Department of Education requirement and to provide a framework for considering future revisions, the Higher Learning Commission is surveying a wide variety of its stakeholders to identify the strengths of its Criteria for Accreditation and the opportunities to improve them. 

Thanks to those who submitted nominations for candidates for the Board of Trustees of The Higher Learning Commission. A Nominating Committee of seven persons broadly representative of member institutions will screen the nominations and will name two candidates for each open position, based on the needs of the Board.

In order the make a more accurate determination of vacancies and needs, the Board has decided to delay the election of new trustees from January/February, as in recent years, to March/April. Therefore, the Nominating Committee will meet in early March and we will not be in touch with candidates for placement on the ballot until mid-March. Ballots will be sent to the membership in late March or early April.

The Commission will open nominations for the 2011 Board election process in mid-2010.

HLC is seeking faculty and administrators with broad and generalist knowledge of higher education institutions to serve as peer reviewers. In addition, particular needs include presidents from all types of institutions, community college faculty, and individuals with specific specialties in: