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Cal Poly Humboldt’s Accreditation Steering Committee has prepared four essay DRAFTS for the university’s WSCUC 2025 accreditation institutional report, and the committee is requesting collegial feedback from the entire campus community.
The four essays correspond to WSCUC’s four accreditation standards (outlined below). Through these essays, we endeavor to tell the story of Cal Poly Humboldt —where we are succeeding, where we are challenged, and where we want to go. After reading the final version of this report next fall and visiting campus the following spring, an evaluation team will conclude the process by making recommendations to WSCUC leadership, including how long to extend our accreditation and whether or not to schedule any interim visits or required reporting.
The accreditation process is collegial, and WSCUC takes a supportive, not punitive, approach, truly seeking to assist the institutions it accredits. And it is also true that the more we can show the university to be a healthy, successful institution heading in the right direction, the less time and labor we will need to devote to complying with their requests in the coming years.
We encourage all of you to read as many of the essays as you are willing, whether that means choosing only those you find most compelling or choosing to offer feedback on all four. We want to stress that these are first drafts, and thus every piece of feedback will offer us a valuable opportunity to revise and improve the story we are telling.
Feedback forms will remain open until April 11, 2025, and we will share what we heard at the University Senate before the end of the spring semester.
The Steering Committee is grateful for your contribution to this important work.
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If you would like to submit comments anonymously, you may contact WSCUC directly at their comment page.
Accreditation Standard 1: Defining Institutional Mission and Acting with Integrity
The institution defines its mission and establishes educational and student success objectives aligned with that mission. The institution has a clear sense of its essential values, culture, and distinctive elements and of its contributions to society and the public good. It promotes the success of all students and makes explicit its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The institution functions with integrity and transparency.
Essay 1 Draft with Link to Response Form
Accreditation Standard 2: Achieving Educational Objectives and Student Success
The institution achieves its educational and student success objectives through the core functions of teaching and learning, and through support for student learning, scholarship, and creative activity. It promotes the success of all students and makes explicit its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The institution demonstrates that core functions are performed effectively by evaluating valid and reliable evidence of learning.
Essay 2 Draft with Link to Response Form
Accreditation Standard 3: Assuring Resources and Organizational Structures
The institution achieves its educational and student success objectives through investments in human, physical, fiscal, technology, and information resources within appropriate organizational and decision-making structures, and consistent with its explicit commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Essay 3 Draft with Link to Response Form
Accreditation Standard 4: Creating an Institution Committed to Quality Assurance and Improvement
The institution engages in sustained, evidence-based, and participatory reflection about how effectively it is accomplishing its mission, achieving its educational and student success objectives, and realizing its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The institution envisions its future in light of the changing environment of higher education. These activities inform both institutional planning and systematic evaluations of educational effectiveness.
Essay 4 Draft with Link to Response Form
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