HLC Accreditation
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Reaffirmation of Accreditation
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2025 Federal Compliance Report
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FAQs
Why is Accreditation Important?
Institutional accreditation is important because it puts the responsibility for assuring the quality of an institution on the institution itself. Institutional accreditation evaluates the capacity of an institution to assure its own quality. By doing so it allows each institution to approach the Criteria of Accreditation within the context of its mission. Through a specific pathway, institutions engage in evaluation cycles to reaffirm compliance with HLC requirements. Through these evaluation cycles HLC expects institutions to produce evidence that it is meeting the Criteria for Accreditation.
The Criteria for Accreditation should be view through this lens. HLC expects that institutions have policies, processes, and expectations for quality assurance in its entirety and throughout its educational offerings. For example, governing boards should ensure quality through its governance structures, with appropriate degrees of involvement and delegation, institutional planning is important because it is critical to sustaining quality, and assessment of student learning and attention on persistence and completion are ways in which the institution improves and ensures the quality of its teaching and learning.
In short, accreditation is important because it affirms Ohio University is providing a quality education, offers valuable feedback from experts in the field on how Ohio University is meeting nationally endorsed criteria, and provides an opportunity to assess, improve, and demonstrate our institutional effectiveness. Accreditation can also affect eligibility for:
- faculty and staff to receive grants
- students to receive federal and state financial aid
- student’s credit hours and courses to transfer to other institutions
- graduates to sit for licensing exams and pursue graduate level education
HLC Evidence Collection covers a broader range of topics than in the Assessment Clearinghouse. Assessment is a big part of the evidence that we use to tell our story to accreditors, and the Assessment Clearinghouse is a substantial database of academic and non-academic measures, but there are lots of other sources of evidence, like market research, stakeholder feedback, impact studies, planning documents (strategic, capital and financial), and more.
HLC Evidence Collection covers a broader range of topics than in the Assessment Clearinghouse. Assessment is a big part of the evidence that we use to tell our story to accreditors, and the Assessment Clearinghouse is a substantial database of academic and non-academic measures, but there are lots of other sources of evidence, like market research, stakeholder feedback, impact studies, planning documents (strategic, capital and financial), and more.
HLC Evidence Collection covers a broader range of topics than in the Assessment Clearinghouse. Assessment is a big part of the evidence that we use to tell our story to accreditors, and the Assessment Clearinghouse is a substantial database of academic and non-academic measures, but there are lots of other sources of evidence, like market research, stakeholder feedback, impact studies, planning documents (strategic, capital and financial), and more.