The Candidacy Program
The Commission 's candidacy program, as described in the Handbook of Accreditation, makes explicit the following expectations for all candidate institutions:
- An applying institution must demonstrate that it meets the General Institutional Requirements. In addition, it will be measured against the Criteria for Accreditation. An institution seeking candidacy will document, through its self-study, the degree to which it meets each of the five Criteria, and, through a carefully articulated plan and timetable, will show how it intends to meet fully each of them within the four-year period of candidacy.
To achieve candidacy, an institution will be expected to provide an emerging pattern of evidence for each criterion. Throughout the candidacy period Evaluation Teams evaluate and address in their reports whether the institution is progressively demonstrating the patterns of evidence needed to achieve accreditation before the end of the candidacy period. |
