{"id":24649,"date":"2016-10-20T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=24649"},"modified":"2016-10-20T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T22:11:29","slug":"hlc-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=24649","title":{"rendered":"HLC: Are you ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/chancellor\/initiatives.html\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24660 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop-300x176.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-initiative-crop\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop-750x441.png 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop-150x88.png 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop.png 1823w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To assist faculty and staff in preparing for the Nov. 14-15 visit by an accreditation team from the Higher Learning Commission, a website housing materials representing the university was recently created.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the names of the five-person team that will visit UCCS were released.<\/p>\n<p>Web Services, working in coordination with the Office of the Chancellor, University Communications and University Marketing, created the site. It contains more than 1,500 pages of documents including a summaries of the assurance argument criteria, the complete version of the assurance argument, a compliance worksheet and appendices. Two related documents, the Quality Online Initiative and the 2016 Midpoint Review of the 2012-2020 Strategic Plan, are also available on the site. When details of the site visit become available, they will also be posted to the site.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and staff are encouraged to review the documents and be familiar with them in anticipation of questions from HLC reviewers.<\/p>\n<p>To visit the site, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/chancellor\/initiatives.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reviewers who will visit UCCS are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katricia Pierson, provost and vice president for academic affairs, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma. She will chair the review team.<\/li>\n<li>Colleen Greer, dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Wharton, associate provost, Office of Institutional Research, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>William Roweton, professor, Psychological Sciences, Chadron State University, Chadron, Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Peress, vice president, Student Affairs, Lake Superior State University, Marie, Michigan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend a mock interview session to prepare for the upcoming visit.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the mock interviews is for faculty and staff \u00a0to hear questions that HLC reviewers may ask and have the opportunity to formulate and discuss answers as a group.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions are:<br \/>\n<strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3:30 p.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m., Oct. 25, University Center 302<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 p.m. \u2013 3 p.m., Oct. 21, University Center 302<\/li>\n<li>9 a.m. \u2013 10 a.m., Oct. 24, University Center 302<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>To assist faculty and staff in preparing for the Nov. 14-15 visit by an accreditation team from the Higher Learning Commission, a website housing materials representing the university was recently created. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=24649\" title=\"HLC: Are you ready?\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/screen-shot-initiative-crop-300x176-1.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-6pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24665,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions\/24665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}