Assurance Review Materials

The HLC peer review team based their review on the Assurance Argument, a 105-page document prepared by the university to demonstrate the ways in which the university meets each of HLC's five criteria for accreditation.

Peer reviewers access the Assurance Argument within HLC’s secure electronic portfolio system, which also gives them access to 800+ supporting documents provided by the university as evidence for the claims made in the argument.

Copies of the review materials are available for members of the university community:

• Assurance Argument (105 pages)
  This document presents the narrative summary prepared by the university to demonstrate ways in which the university meets each of the HLC criteria for accreditation. Links within the Assurance Argument refer to supporting evidence documents provided by the university, but which can only be accessed within HLC's secure electronic portfolio system.
• Review Team Report Summary (3 pages)

Assurance Review Preparation

To maintain university accreditation with HLC, institutions undergo a Comprehensive Review and Site Visit every ten years.  Approximately halfway between Comprehensive Reviews, institutions undergo a virtual Assurance Review.

In the months leading up to the Assurance Review, faculty and staff throughout the university contributed materials and documentation to update the Assurance Argument and Evidence File originally prepared for the university's 2019 Comprehensive Review. These updated materials were then submitted to a team of external peer reviewers, who examined them in terms of HLC's university accreditation criteria.

Tanya Uden-Holman, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, serves as Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO), the university's primary contact for responding to HLC. Preparation of the Assurance Argument and Evidence File was coordinated by Wayne Jacobson and Kris Yows, Office of the Provost.