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accreditation

Date: April 9, 2012

To: The Wesleyan Community

From: Rob Rosenthal, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Subject: Wesleyan's Reaccreditation Process

Welcome to Wesleyan's Accreditation website! 
Please read the most recent draft of the self-study and post your comments about how to tell Wesleyan's story as we develop this 100-page document.  Our goal is for this to be a collaborative process.  We want every member of the Wesleyan community to have an opportunity to be part of this process, to have a voice in the work of deciding what to highlight about the last ten years in Wesleyan's history. 

Collaboration - 
We invite you to participate in the accreditation process by:

  • Posting comments about each draft, section by section, of the self-study here.
  • Attending community forum meetings on the accreditation process

Steps in the process
 - We are following the process and timeline below. For a more detailed timeline, click here.

1. First narrative draft was posted for feedback (December 2011–January 2012).

2. Polished draft now posted.  This is the penultimate draft, which incorporates community feedback from the earlier stage. This is the last opportunity for community feedback to be incorporated into the self-study, and we encourage faculty, students, staff, alumni, and parents to comment.  

3. The Self-Study as submitted: this final version is due in summer 2012. It will be posted here as soon as we submit it to our accreditation agency, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). 

4. Campus visit by the Visiting Committee: a team of faculty and administrators from our peer institutions will visit Wesleyan beginning September 30, 2012.  They will meet with students, faculty, librarians, staff, and trustees, to evaluate Wesleyan and compare what they see on campus with what was said in the self-study. 

About accreditation
 - Wesleyan undergoes reaccreditation every ten years, with a mid-cycle review each five-year point in between. For this process, we write a 100-page self-study and then host a visit to campus by a committee of faculty and administrators from peer schools who review us in the context of our self-study. To prepare for this, twelve committees of Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students developed drafts of our self-study, for community input. Additional committees are working on plans for engaging the community, collecting data, steering the overall process, and polishing drafts.    

Thank you for reading these drafts and posting comments -- the self-study will be better with your input.