USDE Regulations
The period of time granted for USDE recognition.
What is 5 years?
Year the NLN CNEA initially received USDE recognition.
What is 2021?
The purpose of NACIQI.
What is to make recommendations regarding accrediting agencies and advise the US Secretary of Education on accreditation matters?
The number of full-time staff employed by NLN CNEA.
What is 3?
The number of times per year pre-accreditation applications are accepted.
What is three? (April, August, November)
The length of time a program has to come into compliance with an accreditation standard once it is has been identified as noncompliant.
What is 150% of the program's length?
Another name for the electronic portal used for program data entry and Committee review.
What is ARMATURE, AMS, or the accreditation management system?
Number of members on NACIQI and term length.
What is 18 members and six year terms?
Ayisat's job title.
What is Administrative Assistant?
The maximum amount of time that can be granted for continuing accreditation.
Categories of individuals required on accreditation decision-making Boards.
What is public representatives, educators, practitioners, academic personnel, and employers? (institutional accreditors have more requirements)
Person(s) responsible for editing site visit team reports.
Who is Teresa and external contractors?
Length of time CNEA was questioned during the March 2026 NACIQI meeting.
What is 2.5 hours?
Where Teresa lives.
What is DC during the week and PA on the weekends?
The year NLN CNEA granted its first pre-accreditation.
What is 2016?
What is student achievement, curricula, faculty, facilities, equipment and supplies, fiscal and administrative capacity, student support services, program practices and publications documentation, objectives of the program, record of student complaints?
The number of programs that have Fall 2026 site visits.
What is 14?
Current US Secretary of Education which will make the final decision on the USDE recognition status.
Who is Linda McMahon? (decision is expected by June 30, 2026)
The years each NLN CNEA staff member joined the organization.
What is 2021 (Teresa and Jenny) and 2025 (Ayisat)?
Information which must be available in writing to the public about NLN CNEA operations.
What is the type of accreditation granted, procedures, standards, programs accredited and their next review, names and qualifications of decision-making bodies, and names and qualifications of administrative staff?
Process by which federal laws concerning educational accreditation and USDE regulations are changed.
What is negotiated rule-making?
Records that must be maintained by NLN CNEA.
What is the self-study, site visit team reports, program response to site visit team report, periodic reviews (annual reports), and any special reviews (e.g., focus site visits)?
Groups that appoint members to NACIQI.
What is the US Secretary of Education, House of Representatives, and the Senate?
Jenny's second choice of profession (outside of nursing).
What is a marine biologist?
Activities completed by the USDE agency staff as part of the recognition process.
What is observe a site visit, observe decision-making meetings, conduct a file review, hold a meeting with agency staff, and review lengthy agency report? (report is due 2 years before appearing before NACIQI)