Higher Learning Commission
This campus representative serves as the primary institutional contact and point of connection with HLC.
What is an Accreditation Liaison Officer?
SACSCOC serves as this type of accreditor, evaluating the university, not individual programs.
What is institutional?
The date when the institution plans to begin material public, non-reversible, or significant actions (e.g., admitting students or starting instruction).
What is effective date?
These are adopted by the Board of Trustees, apply to the entire University, and are considered university-wide "laws."
What are FSU Regulations?
In contrast to institutional accreditation which looks at the whole university, this type of accreditation evaluates specific programs, departments, or schools within an institution.
What is programmatic accreditation? [Also accept “What is specialized accreditation?”]
This core narrative document submitted by an institution articulates how it meets each Criterion and Core Component.
What is the Assurance Argument?
Known by a three-letter acronym, this FSU initiative focuses on enhancing student learning outcomes.
What is a QEP (Quality Enhancement Plan)?
Which two institutional officials are authorized to submit a substantive change request to SACSCOC?
What is the President and Accreditation Liaison?
This is the FSU Policy that specifies the way FSU promulgates administrative policies.
What is FSU Policy 2-1? [Also accept "What is the policy on policies?"]
This committee, jointly sponsored by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Association (AMA) accredits medical education programs leading to an M.D. in the United States.
What is LCME? [Also accept “What is the Liaison Committee on Medical Education?”
An institution wishing to open an additional location or offer a new degree level must apply for this type of approval.
What is Substantive Change?
Colleges must obtain formal approval before implementing major academic or organizational updates under this institutional policy.
What is a substantive change policy?
An additional location that is geographically apart from the institution's main campus and where instruction is delivered.
What is an off-campus instructional site?
Pursuant to FSU Policy 4-OP-C-13, this is the amount of tolerance that FSU has for fraudulent, unethical, and other dishonest activities.
What is zero?
If you want to become a Registered Nurse, you should look for a nursing program with this recognition.
What is recognition by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)?
HLC Criterion 2.A requires that institutions ensure their staff, faculty, and administrators avoid this ethical violation.
What is Conflict of Interest?
Accreditation gives students, employers, and the public confidence in the official value of this earned academic credential.
What is a degree?
Documentation of rationale for program faculty decisions related to program curricula, including new offerings, changes, enhancements, and closures.
What are meeting minutes?
Which of the following is not the subject of an FSU Regulation or Policy? Drones, small boats, screenplays, vertebrate animals, crowdfunding, or cryptocurrency.
What is none of the above? – all are subjects of FSU Regulations or Policies.
Attending a law school accredited by this national organization’s Council on the Section of Legal Education will allow a graduate to sit for the bar examination in most states in the U.S.
What is the ABA? [Also accept “What is the American Bar Association?”]
This fundamental tenet requires institutions to represent their programs, costs, and transferability accurately to current and prospective students
What is Public Disclosure? OR “Transparency”
Students, staff, and community members can submit formal feedback about a university under evaluation through this public input process.
What are third-party comments?
A written institutional plan that documents the changes an institution is requesting to implement, including detailed responses to a set of required questions and submission of evidence related to the type of substantive change under review.
What is a prospectus?
Amendments to the FSU Constitution are not effective until these two bodies approve or ratify them
What are the Faculty Senate and Faculty eligible for election to the Faculty Senate?
(2/3 vote of faculty senate then ratified by majority vote of faculty eligible for election)
Programmatic accreditors are typically recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or this non-governmental oversight body.
What is CHEA? [Also accept “What is the Council for Higher Education Accreditation?”]