Pathways for Reaffirmation of Accreditation*
Pathways for Maintaining Accreditation
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STANDARD PATHWAY
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OPEN PATHWAY
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AQIP PATHWAY
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Who Participates
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• Required for all institutions granted initial accreditation through the first ten years
• All accredited institutions that are not eligible for the other pathways and those that choose this pathway
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All eligible institutions that elect to use this pathway
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All eligible institutions that elect to use this pathway and are admitted by a peer panel |
How Pathway Assures Compliance with Criteria, Federal Requirements,
Other Commission Policies
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Institutional Update Filing and Analysis
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• Ten-year cycle
• Assurance Review and Comprehensive Evaluation with visit in Years 4 and 10
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• Ten-year cycle
• Assurance Review in Year 4, Assurance Review and Comprehensive Evaluation with visit in Year 10
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• Seven-year cycle
• Periodic Systems Appraisals and Quality Checkup Visit
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• May require interim reports and focused visits
• Follows standard Commission policies and practices on institutional change
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• May require interim reports
• Follows standard Commission policies and practices on institutional change
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• May require interim reports and focused visits
• Follows standard Commission policies and practices on institutional change
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How Pathway Encourages Improvement
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Improvement is aligned with Assurance Argument
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• Quality Initiative between Years 5-9
• Initiative approval at launch of Initiative
• Report review at conclusion (no visit)
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Improvement focused Action Projects and Strategy Forums
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Role of Peer Reviewers
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Corps of trained and experienced professionals serve as peer reviewersand decision makers in these processes |
* Institutions under sanction or show cause order are on a separate, heightened level of monitoring by the Commission and are not on any Pathway.
