SACS Readiness Resources

Fifth-Year Interim Report
     Organizational meeting PowerPoint   Added 9-19-08
     Faculty Senate PowerPoint   Added 10-15-08

Brief timetable for UNCW's next SACS accreditation review:

• 2008-09          Fifth-Year Interim Report
• Fall 2010        Working committees formed for ten-year review
• Fall 2011        QEP topic selected
• Fall 2012        Compliance certification due; off-site review conducted
• Spring 2013    QEP due; on-site review conducted

Detailed UNCW SACS timetable

Links to SACS publications

• Principles of Accreditation (Effective January 1, 2007)
  This is the current version of the standards with which an institution must comply in order to maintain accreditation with the Commission on Colleges.
• Quality Enhancement Plan Handbook (Released March 4, 2008)
  This document details a ten step process for developing the QEP.
• Resource Manual
  This manual contains rationale and notes, relevant questions to guide compliance response, and sample documentation for each of the standards.
  
• Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation
  This handbook describes the accreditation review process and the Quality Enhancement Plan.  Appendix D contains a standard-by-standard list of suggested documentation and supporting evidence.

Links to selected Quality Enhancement Plans

North Carolina State University's Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment
University of Texas at Arlington's Active Learning
University of Central Florida's Information Fluency

Executive Summaries of Quality Enhancement Plans Developed by the 2007 Reaffirmation Class
One page summaries are provided for the QEPs of thirty-seven institutions having graduate programs.

Other SACS links

Titles of recent Quality Enhancement Plans
SACS home page

NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement)

UNCW's Office of Institutional Research maintains a Web page with recent NSSE and FSSE results for UNCW.