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Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

Assurance review report and supporting evidence will be submitted May 2022
Information regarding CITS will be included in three specific criteria (summary below, specific wording on next slide) and other criteria as applicable�

Consistency in quality and learning goals across delivery modes
Faculty qualifications
Assurance of learning outcomes and levels of achievement equivalent to UMD curriculum

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HLC Criteria for Accreditation & UMD CITS

Core Component 3.A.3.: The institution’s program quality and learning goals are consistent across all modes of delivery and all locations (on the main campus, at additional locations, by distance delivery, as dual credit*, through contractual or consortial arrangements, or any other modality).�
Core Component 3.C.3.: All instructors are appropriately qualified, including those in dual credit*, contractual and consortial offerings.�
Core Component 4.A.4.: The institution maintains and exercises authority of the prerequisites for courses, rigor of courses, expectations for student learning, access to learning resources, and faculty qualifications for all its programs, including dual credit programs. It ensures that its dual credit courses or programs for high school students are equivalent in learning outcomes and levels of achievement to its higher education curriculum.*

*emphasis added

HLC Assurance Review Evidence Examples

Ideally, each course has the same core SLOs across all class sections regardless of delivery location/mode�

Faculty Qualification professional development plans�
Instructor CVs, current as of fall 2021 or spring 2022�
Documented discussions of course SLO assessment results comparing CITS sections and UMD sections

E.g.: faculty liaison written summaries; department meeting minutes
Ideally during the discussions data and samples of student work are reviewed by UMD faculty and CITS instructors