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• Compliance Certification, 2003

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Organizing for Reaffirmation
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Leadership Team

• Members Chancellor, Provost (chair),
  Accreditation Liaison, faculty leader,
  administrative leader
• Charge
• Organize teams
• Communicate to campus
• Review and approve compliance report
• Review and approve QEP
• Organize site visit

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QEP Team

• Co-chaired by faculty member and administrative
  staff
• Started same time as Compliance Team
• Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment
• Some overlap with Compliance Certification

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Compliance Team

• Co-chaired by faculty member and administrator
  (Accreditation Liaison)
• Members administrators responsible for areas
  covered by SACS requirements, and limited faculty
• Charge draft and integrate reports, recommend
  compliance judgment, recommend changes where
  needed for compliance, draft response to off-site
  team as needed

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Institutional Effectiveness Compliance Team

• Co-chaired by faculty and administrator
  (University Assessment Director)
• Members assessment professionals in major
  academic and administrative divisions
• Charge draft compliance reports related to
  planning and assessment recommend compliance
  judgment, recommend changes where needed for
  compliance, draft response to off-site team as
  needed

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Staff Functions

• Coordinating all activities (Accreditation
  Liaison)
• Administrative and web development (ALs
  administrative assistant)
• Editor
• Analysis (Institutional Research staff)
• Temporary help as needed

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Schedule

• April 2002 Selected QEP topic, appointed
  Leadership Team
• May 2002 Attended SACS training session
• June 2002 Appointed other teams
• Aug 2002 Trained Compliance Team, developed
  report guidelines
• Oct-April Compliance Team wrote and reviewed
  drafts
• Feb 2003 SACS staff visit (optional but worth it)
• Apr-May 2003 Distributed draft compliance reports
  to campus
• June 2003 Submitted compliance reports to
  Leadership Team
• July 2003 Final editing of compliance reports
• August 2003 Submitted compliance certification to
  SACS

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Challenging Issues

• Committee structure
• Scheduling and tracking campus review
• Electronic submission, freezing the website
• Motivating participants
• Setting goals for the review
• Establishing performance standards
• Efficiency versus value
• Assessment Carrot and stick
• Describing moving targets