Higher Learning Commission Plans Visit to Kettering University
Student forum 9th Monday to focus on school's "resource base for academic programs"
Isaac Meadows
Issue date: 3/2/10 Section: News
A planned visit by the Higher Learning Commission on March 8 (9th Monday) will include meetings with individuals and groups across the Kettering campus as well as a forum for student input. According to the Commission's website, the visit will be "focused on resource base for educational programs and plans for maintaining and strengthening that base." Dr. Mark Wicks, Kettering's Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and coordinator of the steering committee appointed to help address the Higher Learning Commission's concerns, declined to comment on specific details of or reasons for the Commission's visit.
Individuals with knowledge of the matter emphasized that the the Higher Learning Commission's focus is not on any one academic program. According to an informational document on the Commission's website, "An institutional accrediting agency evaluates an entire educational organization in terms of its mission and the agency's standards or criteria. It accredits the organization as a whole. Besides assessing formal educational activities, it evaluates such things as governance and administration, financial stability, admissions and student services, institutional resources, student learning, institutional effectiveness, and relationships with internal and external constituencies."
Additional information was not available at press time, but ongoing reports will be available at www.the-technician.blogspot.com
Individuals with knowledge of the matter emphasized that the the Higher Learning Commission's focus is not on any one academic program. According to an informational document on the Commission's website, "An institutional accrediting agency evaluates an entire educational organization in terms of its mission and the agency's standards or criteria. It accredits the organization as a whole. Besides assessing formal educational activities, it evaluates such things as governance and administration, financial stability, admissions and student services, institutional resources, student learning, institutional effectiveness, and relationships with internal and external constituencies."
Additional information was not available at press time, but ongoing reports will be available at www.the-technician.blogspot.com
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