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1 | Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Cycle | |||||||||||
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3 | Cycle Year | Year | Institution | Peer Review | HLC Decision-Making | |||||||
4 | Annual Institutional Update | Assurance Review | Quality Initiative Proposal | Quality Initiative Report | Comprehensive Evaluation | Assurance Review | Quality Initiative Proposal | Quality Initiative Report | Comprehensive Evaluation | |||
5 | 1 | 2023-2024 | Submit Annual Institutional Update. | Contribute documents to Evidence File and begin writing Assurance Argument for Year 4 Assurance Review. | ||||||||
6 | 2 | 2024-2025 | ||||||||||
7 | 3 | 2025-2026 | ||||||||||
8 | 4 | 2026-2027 | Submit Assurance Filing (Assurance Argument and Evidence File). | Conduct Assurance Review (no visit) | Acceptance of or action on Assurance Review | |||||||
9 | 5 | 2027-2028 | Submit Quality Initiative Proposal. Work on QI project. | Review Quality Initiative Proposal | ||||||||
10 | 6 | 2028-2029 | Preparing Assurance Filing for Year 10 comprehensive evaluation. | |||||||||
11 | 7 | 2029-2030 | Work on Quality Initiative, submit report by year 9. | Review Quality Initiative Report | ||||||||
12 | 8 | 2030-2031 | ||||||||||
13 | 9 | 2031-2032 | Complete rough draft of Assurance Filing for Year 10 comprehensive evaluation. | |||||||||
14 | 10 | 2032-2033 | Submit comprehensive evaluation materials. | Conduct comprehensive evaluation (with visit). | Take action on comprehensive evaluation and Reaffirmation of Accreditation. | |||||||
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