2004 Northwest Accreditation Review

Required and Suggested Exhibits

STANDARD TWO		SOURCE
Required:
Undergraduate
1.	Statement of degree objectives for each program	Web link Exhibit binders
2.	Description of curriculum development bodies and advisory groups with rules of procedure and recent minutes	Web link Exhibit binders
3.	Complete department or program self-studies prepared for part of this self-study	Web link Self study appendices
4.	Evaluation forms and summary reports of student evaluations of faculty and courses	Standard Two exhibit binders Dean's & Chair's offices
5.	Self study and evaluation committee reports from external reviews and the most professional accreditation visits and documentation of resulting actions	Program Review binders Self study appendices
6.	Criteria and Procedures for admission and retention of students, maintenance of student records, and awarding of credit, including credit for prior experiential learning	Web link
7.	Policies regarding transfer of credit, including articulation agreements with other institutions	Web link
8.	Policies regarding remedial work	Web link
9.	Description of materials and forms used in academic advisement process	Web link Standard Two & Three self study appendices
10.	Grade distribution studies	Exhibit binders
11.	Policies governing public service	Web link
Suggested:
1.	Compilation of entering freshman student ability measures
2.	Samples of course examinations and other instruments used to access student achievement or competency and, when possible, available work products determined to be of different levels of quality
3.	Funds devoted to research for each of the past three years, principal source of funds
Graduate
Required:
1.	Policy on the acceptance of graduate credit, including transfer credit	Self Study
2.	Policy on the granting of credit for internships, field experience, or clinical practice	Self Study
Continuing Education
Required:
1.	Catalogs, brochures, announcements and class schedules for special programs. Concurrent Enrollment Conferences Continuing Education Home Page Distance Learning Catalog Early Access Early Access Options Brochure Faculty Mentor Training in Online Teaching Health Care Coding Professional Development The North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Envir. & Community Utah Law Enforcement Academy 5th Annual Quality Month Symposium	Web links
2.	Policies regarding award of credit based on prior experiential learning, including the distribution of credits, by term, for the past two years	Web links
3.	Policies that address all elements of 2.A.10 regarding award of credit	Web link Exhibit binders
4.	List of all courses and programs taught by nontraditional instructional formats for the past three years, indicating the course, type and duration of instruction, number of credits, enrollment, and location.	Exhibit binders
5.	Budgetary information and financial arrangements relating to continuing education and special learning activities	Exhibit binders
6.	Studies demonstrating comparability of outcomes for courses or programs offered under concentration or accelerated time frames, or other nontraditional instructional formats	Exhibit binders
7.	Policies regarding admission, transfer of prior earned credit, credit by examination e.g. CLEP, experiential learning...	Web link Exhibit binders
8.	Sample transcript with explanation of codes	Exhibit binders
9.	Contractual agreements	Exhibit binders
10.	Criteria and procedures for admission of students	Web link Exhibit binders
11.	Catalogs, brochures, and announcements Continuing Education Home Page Professional Development Online and Independent Study Concurrent Early College	Web links See CE exhibit #1
12.	Criteria and procedures for registration of students	Web link Exhibit binders
13.	Procedures for involving appropriate institutional personnel	Exhibit binders