2019 Resource Guide - Higher Learning Commission

2024 Resource Guide

Contents

4 Who We Are

5 Contact HLC 6 Board of Trustees 7 Institutional Actions Council 10 HLC Staff

14 Mission, Vision and Guiding Values

18 HLC Initiatives

19 Strategic Plan 24 Improvements to HLC Requirements

and Procedures 25 HLC's Credential Lab

26 Policy

27 2023 Policy Changes 30 Criteria for Accreditation 36 Assumed Practices 40 Obligations of Membership

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42 Procedures

43 The Accreditation Relationship 46 Start Your Accreditation Journey 47 Pathways for Reaffirmation

of Accreditation 52 Federal Compliance 53 Substantive Change 56 Additional Locations and Branch

Campuses 58 Institutional Update and Financial/

Non-financial Indicators 59 Monitoring 60 Sanctions, Show-Cause Orders and

Adverse Actions 62 Decision-Making Bodies and Processes

64 Accreditation Roles on Campus

65 Institutional Representatives 66 Accreditation Liaison Officer Role 67 Resources and Training

68 Peer Corps

69 Resources and Training for Current Peer Reviewers

71 Becoming a Peer Reviewer

72 Serving Students

73 The HLC Commitment 73 Student Resources

74 Programs and Events

75 HLC's Academies 75 HLC's Annual Conference 76 More Learning Opportunities

78 Resources

79 Institutional Examples 81 Publications 83 HLC's Online Systems 84 Glossary of HLC Terminology

HLC's Resource Guide is published each year in time for the Annual Conference. The next issue will be published in April 2025. For the most current information from HLC, visit .

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Who We Are

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4 Who We Are

Sharon Ulmer, HLC Director of Accreditation Services

Contact HLC

Higher Learning Commission 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500 Chicago, Illinois 60604-1411 Phone: 800.621.7440 / 312.263.0456 Fax: 312.263.7462 hlc@

Accreditation Services

? General Accreditation Information accreditation@

? Mark of Accreditation Status info@

? Pathways for Reaffirmation of Accreditation pathways@

? Request an Official Letter from HLC (for verification of accreditation status, program or location approval, etc.) letter-request

? Seeking Accreditation seekingaccreditation@

? Submit Documents to HLC upload

? Substantive Change changerequest@

Peer Review

? Diversity Initiative diversity@

? General Peer Corps Information peerreview@

? Questions Related to Review Assignments evaluations@

Programs and Events

? Academies academy@

? Annual Conference annualconference@

? Other Learning Programs programming@

Administration

? President's Office president@

? Institutional Dues dues@

Online System and Website Support

? Assurance System assurance-help

? Canopy canopy-help

? SparQ sparq-help

? HLC website hlc@

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Email

Email is HLC's primary means of communicating with member institutions. Please help ensure that email communications we send are delivered by adding these addresses to your approved sender lists: ? hlc@ ? accreditation@ ? inst-update@ ? peerreview@ ? evaluations@

Communications regarding general announcements and HLC programs and events are also sent using these addresses: ? president@ ? programming@ ? academy@ ? annualconference@

Please be sure that your institution's HLC staff liaison's email address is also on the approved sender list. Each liaison's email address is their first initial, last name@ (example: John Smith would be jsmith@)

Leaflet

HLC's newsletter, Leaflet, is published six times a year and is your source for the latest HLC updates, news and resources. Subscribe at leaflet.

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