UW-Platteville Vision
UW-Platteville will be recognized as the
leading student-focused university for its
success in achieving excellence,
creating opportunities, and empowering
each individual.
UW-Platteville Mission
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville provides
associate, baccalaureate, and master’s degree
programs in a broad spectrum of disciplines
including: science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics; criminal justice; education; business;
agriculture; and the liberal arts.
UW-Platteville Mission
We promote excellence by using a personal,
hands-on approach to empower each student to
become broader in perspective, intellectually
more astute, ethically more responsible, and to
contribute wisely as an accomplished
professional and knowledgeable citizen in a
diverse global community.
Why are we here today?
 Review the accreditation process
 What is accreditation?
 What’s our timeline?
 Provide an update on institutional progress
 Who are our campus leaders?
 What have we accomplished so far?
 Inform you about important issues
 HLC expectations
 Assessment
 How you can help
What is accreditation?
 Multi-faceted evaluation of institutional
effectiveness
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Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
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Criteria, Assumed Practices, Federal Compliance
 Requirement
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For access to private, state and federal funding
 Process
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Peer review
 Opportunity
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Institutional self-reflection
Identify areas for improvement
Timelines
Date of our site visit: October 24-25, 2016
We are here
Complete review
again in 4 years
Criteria for Accreditation
1. Mission
2. Ethical and Responsible Conduct
3. Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources
and Support
4. Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and
Improvement
5. Resources, Planning and Institutional
Effectiveness
Progress Report
 Criterion Teams – developing our Quality
Assurance argument
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First outlines shared with Deans, Chief Financial Officer,
Diversity Officer, Provost
Team leaders will be requesting additional information to
be used in our evidence files
 Federal Compliance Team - compiling data to
document that we follow government regulations
Areas for Institutional Attention
 Federal Compliance
 Credit hour review
Federal definition of “credit hour”
 Accountability for equivalent student learning in
compressed timeline courses
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Student complaints
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Policies and processes of logging, tracking and responding
to student complaints
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Clear communication of campus information
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Third party comment
Areas for Institutional Attention
 HLC expectations
 Faculty credentialing
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Student opinion survey
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Change from “guideline”
April, 2016
Evidence of a culture of continuous improvement
Areas for Institutional Attention
 Continuous improvement
 Curricular and co-curricular learning goals
your area’s learning goals aligned with our
institutional mission and goals?
 Are
Areas for Institutional Attention
 Continuous improvement
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How do you know that students have achieved your
goals?
What is your assessment plan?
 How do you collect and analyze your data?
 How do you use the results of assessment to improve
student learning?
 What evidence do you have for success?
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How can you help?
 Live our vision and mission
 Our mission is central to how we will be evaluated.
 Recognize what needs improvement and address
those issues
 Respond to requests for information and data
 Communicate
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Policies and processes must be clearly documented.
Everyone on campus has a part in our reaffirmation of
accreditation.
Review
 The accreditation process
 Institutional progress
 Important issues
 Federal Compliance
 Assessment
 How you can help
What questions do you have?