{"id":2227,"date":"2020-12-15T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:47:48","slug":"recast-accreditation-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2020\/12\/recast-accreditation-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAST | Accreditation Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><strong>From:<\/strong><\/a> McAvity, David &lt;mcavityd@evergreen.edu&gt; <br><strong>Sent:<\/strong> Friday, December 11, 2020 12:28 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nColleagues,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am\nwriting with news regarding accreditation changes we have made through the\nNorthwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distance Education <\/strong>\u2013 Earlier this fall we received notification from the\nNWCCU that, in order to continue offering remote instruction beyond December\n31, 2020, we would need to be accredited to do so.&nbsp; With that in mind, we\nrecently submitted a substantive change application for authorization to\nprovide distance education. Our application referenced our comprehensive New\nAcademic Directions conceptual plan for a more strategic curriculum, as\napproved by the faculty and Board of Trustees last spring, which includes our\nintention to provide &#8220;integration across full-time, part-time, daytime, evening, weekend, and\nlow-residency\/online offerings\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have since be notified that our application has\nbeen accepted, which is wonderful news. This means we are authorized to\ncontinue to provide remote instruction during the pandemic and may continue to\ndo so afterwards.&nbsp; To offer distance education after the pandemic we will\nneed to develop a coherent distance education curriculum, approved by the\nacademic deans, and provide appropriate training and support for faculty and\nstaff engaged in that mode of curriculum delivery.In addition, all\noffices that provide direct student support services will need to continue to\noffer such services remotely, as they are currently doing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lower\nDivision Students for Tacoma and Native Pathways \u2013 <\/strong>Evergreen-Tacoma and the Native Pathways Program have\nbeen designated as upper-division programs since their launch.&nbsp; Over the\nyears they have received inquiries from potential students with fewer than 90\ncredits, requesting the opportunity to apply and be admitted.&nbsp;&nbsp; In\nresponse, both Dawn Barron and Marcia Tate-Arunga have adapted their programs\nto include support for lower-division students and requested approval to admit\nthem. I approved this request, and in late summer, we provided notification to\nNWCCU that we would be including lower-division students in both programs. With\nauthorization secured from NWCCU, we have now welcomed over 20 lower-division\nstudents to these programs this fall.&nbsp; We look forward to admitting more\nnext year. This is a positive development for NPP and Evergreen-Tacoma, and for\nEvergreen as a whole. I\u2019d like to thank Dawn and Marcia for their role in\nachieving this important milestone.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mid\nCycle Review<\/strong> \u2013 Our mid-cycle\naccreditation report, which marks the third year of a seven-year accreditation\ncycle, is due in August 2021.&nbsp; The purpose of this report is to serve as a\nformative evaluation so that the College can receive feedback to use in\npreparing our summative Year Seven Evaluation.&nbsp; The mid-cycle review is\ncomposed of several components, including mission fulfillment, student\nachievement, programmatic assessment, initiatives currently underway, and\nresponses to prior recommendations. You will hear more about this during the\nremainder of this academic year. I am pleased that Abir Biswas has agreed to\nlead completion of our mid-cycle report and preparation for the team visit that\nwill follow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please\nlet me know if you have any questions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best\nwishes,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David McAvity<\/strong> |\nhe-him | Interim Provost and Vice President for Student &amp; Academic Life |\nThe Evergreen State College | 360.867.6400&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: McAvity, David &lt;mcavityd@evergreen.edu&gt; Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:28 PM Dear Colleagues,&nbsp; I am writing with news regarding accreditation&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2778,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}