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Accreditation Pressures

Accreditation can be an anxiety-inducing trudge … or an opportunity to showcase your college’s or university’s accomplishments. What makes the difference? Planning—both for your institution’s future and for the accreditation process itself.

Integrated planning aligns with many higher education accrediting bodies’ standards. It also produces most of the evidence you need to excel at your next accreditation reaffirmation while setting your institution up for continued success.

Next steps! Get the tools to help you build a culture of integrating planning strategies.

  • SCUP’s Planning Institute Workshop series will help you and your team no matter where you’re at in the planning process! Check out the next offerings and move your plan from ideas to actions.
  • SCUP’s Academic Planning Workshop will show you how to navigate the complexities of governance structure, politics, resistance, and culture toward making academic decisions that are strategic and aligned. Join us September 22 and 29 (Online).

 

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SCUP COLLECTIONS
Employing Accreditation to Strengthen Planning and Drive Improvement

Use integrated planning to leverage your accreditation process, empowering it from a series of compliance exercises to a driver of quality and strategy. This collection of resources can show you how.

 

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Related Learning Resources

Planning for Higher Education Journal

Trends in Accreditation

 Dr. Lynn Priddy answers questions posed by education writer Stephen G. Pelletier related to changes in accreditation and their effect on institutions and students.
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Planning for: Changes in Accreditation

 Accreditation is rapidly changing, creating new challenges and opportunities for colleges and universities. We interviewed Lynn Priddy, executive advisor and provost emeritus at National American University, to discuss these challenges and opportunities and how institutions can prepare.
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Collection: Employing Accreditation to Strengthen Planning and Drive Improvement

 Accreditation holds far more potential for an organization's strategic and academic planning than most colleges and universities realize. This collection of SCUP resources includes an introduction to accreditation along with examples of how institutions intentionally employ accreditation at multiple levels to strengthen planning and drive improvement.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Introduction to Accreditation

 The president of a regional accrediting body shares her answers to frequently asked questions about accreditation.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Navigating Accreditation

 Three members of IU Bloomington’s successful accreditation reaffirmation team share insights and strategies for navigating the process at your institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Connecting Your Institution’s Achievements to Demonstrate a Culture of Compliance

 Achieving the goals of a strategic plan will provide an institution with directly correlated evidence of compliance.
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Conferences, Courses, and Workshops of Interest

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SCUP 2023 Annual Conference

 July 30, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Cleveland, OH
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Strategic PlanningInstitutional Effectiveness PlanningAcademic PlanningResource Planning
Annie Newman

Why I’m a SCUP Member...

"The resources that SCUP provides—from the email news to the Planning for Higher Education journal to the conferences—have proved invaluable to my growth and success as a planner. I come away from conferences energized and full of new ideas to try out at my campus."
Annie Newman
Director of Campus Planning
Rhode Island School of Design



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