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Equity. Engagement.</h2> <div style="color:#677475;"><hr /> <p>With equity at its core—success for all students—WSCUC pursues excellence through rigorous accreditation standards applied flexibly, empowering all its member institutions to achieve their missions.</p> </div> </article> </div> </section> <section id="" class="component wysiwyg-component bkgd-color valign-top" style=" background-color: #efefef; " > <div class="row"> <article class="column full_width"> <h2 style="color:#2f3866;">BOLD STRATEGIC GOALS</h2> <div style="color:#677475;"><hr /> <p>Equity & inclusion, evidence and improvement, and national and global reach are the centerpieces of WSCUC’s Strategic Goals and Objectives to advance quality and student success. These three enduring goals, adopted June 25, 2021, will be accomplished through a set of objectives and specific activities organized around standards development, education, advocacy and communication, accreditation policy and process, governance, and organization fundamentals.</p> <a class="button blue " href="https://www.wscuc.org/about/strategic-goals/">Strategic Goals & Objectives</a> </div> </article> </div> </section> <section id="" class="component column-component bkgd-color bkgd-dark-blue " style=" background-color: #2f3866; " > <div class="row"> <article class="column one_third txt-center pos-middle bkgd-color has-buttons " style=" background-color: #f9f9f9; " > <div class="content-wrap"> <h3 class="column-headline" style="color: #2f3866;">Evidence & Improvement</h3> <p class="column-content" style="color: #677475;">Lead nationally in development and use of meaningful, contextualized evidence of equitable student success, institutional performance, and financial sustainability, under the “Better Conversations, Better Data” banner.</p> <div class="button-wrap"><a class="button" href="https://www.wscuc.org/resources/evidence-and-data/" >Evidence & Data</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="column one_third txt-center pos-middle bkgd-color has-buttons " style=" background-color: #f9f9f9; " > <div class="content-wrap"> <h3 class="column-headline" style="color: #2f3866;">Equity & Inclusion</h3> <p class="column-content" style="color: #677475;">Promote strong equity and inclusion goals and real progress for students, institutions and higher education, as well as throughout WSCUC itself.</p> <div class="button-wrap"><a class="button" href="https://www.wscuc.org/resources/equity-and-inclusion/" >Equity & Inclusion</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="column one_third txt-center pos-middle bkgd-color has-buttons " style=" background-color: #f9f9f9; " > <div class="content-wrap"> <h3 class="column-headline" style="color: #2f3866;">National & Global Reach</h3> <p class="column-content" style="color: #677475;">Accredit and support institutions within our historic region, across the country, and around the world that share and advance WSCUC’s equity, evidence-based, and innovation priorities.<br /> </p> <div class="button-wrap"><a class="button" href="https://www.wscuc.org/about/national-global-reach/" >Broader Reach</a></div> </div> </article> </div> </section> <section id="" class="component wysiwyg-component bkgd-color valign-top" style=" background-color: #efefef; " > <div class="row"> <article class="column full_width"> <h2 style="color:#2f3866;">WSCUC’s Approach to Accreditation</h2> <div style="color:;"><hr /> <h4>WSCUC accreditation aids institutions in developing and sustaining effective educational programs and assures the educational community and the general public that an accredited institution has met high standards of quality and effectiveness.</h4> <p>The Commission accredits institutions rather than individual programs. Therefore, in addition to assessing the academic quality and educational effectiveness of institutions, the Commission emphasizes institutional structures, processes, and resources. The accreditation process is aimed at:</p> <div class="accordion-shortcode "><h4 class="accordion-header"><span class="genericon genericon-close"></span><span class="header-text">Assuring the Community of Quality</span></h4><div class="accordion-item">Assuring the educational community and the general public that an accredited institution has demonstrated it meets the Commission’s Core Commitments to Institutional Capacity and Educational Effectiveness, and has been successfully reviewed under Commission Standards.</div></div> <div class="accordion-shortcode "><h4 class="accordion-header"><span class="genericon genericon-close"></span><span class="header-text">Developing and Applying Standards</span></h4><div class="accordion-item">Developing and applying Standards to review and improve educational quality and institutional performance, and validating these Standards and revising them through ongoing research and feedback.</div></div> <div class="accordion-shortcode "><h4 class="accordion-header"><span class="genericon genericon-close"></span><span class="header-text">Promoting a Culture of Evidence</span></h4><div class="accordion-item">Promoting within institutions a culture of evidence where indicators of performance are regularly developed and evidence collected to inform institutional decision making, planning, and improvement.</div></div> <div class="accordion-shortcode "><h4 class="accordion-header"><span class="genericon genericon-close"></span><span class="header-text">Promoting Engagement</span></h4><div class="accordion-item">Promoting deep institutional engagement with issues of educational effectiveness and student learning, and developing and sharing good practices in assessing and improving the teaching and learning process.</div></div> <div class="accordion-shortcode "><h4 class="accordion-header"><span class="genericon genericon-close"></span><span class="header-text">Developing Adaptive Systems</span></h4><div class="accordion-item">Developing systems of institutional review and evaluation that are adaptive to institutional context and purposes, that build on institutional evidence and support rigorous reviews, and reduce the burden and cost of accreditation.</div></div> <div class="accordion-shortcode "><h4 class="accordion-header"><span class="genericon genericon-close"></span><span class="header-text">Promoting the Exchange of Ideas</span></h4><div class="accordion-item">Promoting the active interchange of ideas among public and independent institutions that furthers the principles of improved institutional performance, educational effectiveness, and the process of peer review.</div></div> <p>To learn more about accreditation in general, please see the <a href="https://www.wscuc.org/resources/introduction-to-accreditation/">Introduction to Accreditation</a> page.</p> </div> </article> </div> </section> <section id="" class="component column-component bkgd-color bkgd-dark-blue " style=" background-color: #2f3866; " > <div class="row"> <article class="column one_half txt-left pos-top bkgd-color has-buttons " style=" background-color: #f9f9f9; " > <div class="content-wrap"> <h3 class="column-headline" style="color: #2f3866;">Institutions WSCUC Accredits</h3> <p class="column-content" style="color: #677475;">WSCUC is proud of the diverse missions and characteristics of the public and private higher education institutions it accredits in the United States and around the world.</p> <div class="button-wrap"><a class="button" href="https://www.wscuc.org/directory/" >View The Directory</a><a class="button" href="https://www.wscuc.org/resources/becoming-accredited/" >Becoming Accredited</a></div> </div> </article> <article class="column one_half txt-left pos-top bkgd-color has-buttons " style=" background-color: #f9f9f9; " > <div class="content-wrap"> <h3 class="column-headline" style="color: #2f3866;">WSCUC Authority</h3> <p class="column-content" style="color: #677475;">WSCUC is recognized as an institutional accrediting agency, and reviewed periodically for renewal, by the US Department of Education.<br /> <br /> </p> <div class="button-wrap"><a class="button" href="https://www.ed.gov/accreditation" target="_blank" >EDU.GOV</a></div> </div> </article> </div> </section> <section id="" class="component wysiwyg-component bkgd-color valign-top" style=" background-color: #f9f9f9; " > <div class="row"> <article class="column full_width"> <h2 style="color:#2f3866;">WSCUC Staff</h2> <div style="color:;"><hr /> <p>WSCUC’s staff of experienced higher education professionals includes respected Vice Presidents who serve as institutional liaisons and policy and project leaders, outstanding educational programming and information technology teams, and effective administrative staff who support Commission decision-making and operations. 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