Assurance Argument
Evidence File
Quality Initiative
Federal Compliance
Team Visit
100
The word limit for the Assurance Argument.
What is 35,000?
100
The number of sections that comprise the Evidence File
What is two (2)?
100
The one major project required in the Open Pathway designed to address a concern or achieve an aspiration.
What is a Quality Initiative?
100
Five of the commission requirements that must be addressed in the Federal Compliance Package.
What are: 1.) Assignment of Credits, Program Length and Tuition 2.) Institutional Records of Student Complaints 3.) Publication of Transfer Policies 4.) Practices for Verification of Student Identity 5.) Title IV Program Responsibilities 6.) Required Information for Students and the Public 7.) Advertising, Recruitment Materials & Other Public Info 8.) Review of Student Outcome Data 9.) Standing with State and Other Accrediting Agencies 10.) Public Notification of Opportunity to Comment
100
The date GCCC scheduled to have a Site Visit?
What is October 17-18, 2016?
200
The online system where the Assurance Argument narrative and documentation is held.
What is the Assurance System?
200
The two entities that contribute documents to the Evidence File.
What are GCCC and the Higher Learning Commission?
200
Two of the three forms a Quality Initiative can take.
What is 1.) the institution proposes and designs its own 2.) the institution chooses from a menu of topics 3.) the institution chooses to participate in a commission-facilitated program?
200
The two things confirmed by the Federal Compliance package.
What are: 1.) Proof of compliance with HLC regulations for recognition by the U.S. Dept. of Education 2.) Proof of compliance with Title IV responsibilities for federal financial aid eligibility?
200
To interview employees of the institution and validate claims made in both the Assurance Argument and Evidence File.
What is the purpose of the On-Site visit?
300
The number of Criteria to be addressed in the Assurance Argument for Accreditation.
What is five (5)?
300
The purpose of linking Assurance Argument information to the Evidence File.
What is used to assist peer reviewers verify institutional claims about achieving criteria?
300
The quality initiative that GCCC is currently involved in.
What is the HLC Assessment Academy for Student Learning?
300
To determine if the allocation of credit matches the federal definition of the credit hour and if courses in alternate formats have/follow policies consistent with commonly-accepted practice in higher education.
What is the Commission's intent when reviewing credit hour policy?
300
The length of a typical On-Site Visit.
What is 1 1/2 days?
400
The location of the documentation that links to the narrative in the Assurance Argument.
What is the Evidence File?
400
Material that is NOT linked to any of the Criteria or Core Components in the Assurance Argument.
What is not permitted in the Evidence File?
400
Prepared at the end of the initiative, but no later than year 9 of the ten-year Open Pathway Cycle, this document is submitted for review by a panel of two peer reviewers.
What is the Quality Initiative Report?
400
The institution will make reasonable efforts to ensure students do not take on excessive debt through either federal or private loans.
What is ONE of the Title IV Program responsibilities?
400
The number of Criteria required to be met for reaffirmation of accreditation.
What is "all five of them".
500
Three of the four things each criterion must include.
What are: 1.) Introduction 2.) Articulation of how each core component is met 3.) Statement of additional ways the criterion is fulfilled 4.) Links to materials in the Evidence File?
500
The preferred way of introducing documents submitted as evidentiary backup to the Assurance Argument.
What is the Descriptive Cover Sheet?
500
The genuine effort of the institution, the seriousness of the undertaking, and the significance of scope and impact of the initiative
What is the peer review panel's evaluation and recommendation based on?.
500
The institution shows that it, in a timely manner, received, tracked and processed student complaints and demonstrates that it identifies and learns from the information provided in student complaints.
What is the federal compliance requirement for Student Complaints?
500
When the online Assurance Review begins.
What is 4 weeks prior to the on-site visit?
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