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Accreditation Pressures

Accreditation can be an anxiety-inducing trudge . . . or an opportunity to showcase your college’s or university’s accomplishments. What makes the difference? Planning—both for your institution’s future and for the accreditation process itself.

Integrated planning aligns with many higher education accrediting bodies’ standards. It also produces most of the evidence you need to excel at your next accreditation reaffirmation while setting your institution up for continued success.

 

 

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Collection: Employing Accreditation to Strengthen Planning and Drive Improvement

Use integrated planning to leverage your accreditation process, empowering it from a series of compliance exercises to a driver of quality and strategy. This collection of resources can show you how.

 

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Planning Institute Workshop Series
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Related Learning Resources

Planning for Higher Education Journal

Transforming Data into Meaningful Information

 Leaders in two different accreditation regions share best practices and lessons learned from their integrated planning evolution and its impact on operational efficiency and student learning.
Report

Association Between Accreditation & Integrated Planning

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2019–2020 program. What is the relationship between accreditation and integrated planning? This research delves into this question, examining the perspectives from both the accreditor side (in particular, Middle States Commission on Higher Education) and the institutional side.
Webinar Recordings

The Relationship between Accreditation and Integrated Planning

 This discussion explores the findings from a year-long SCUP Fellows Research Project on the relationship between integrated planning and accreditation. Using the Middle States Commission on Higher Education as a case study and the SCUP integrated planning maturity model as a framework, we discuss potential synergies to support institutional planning.
Blog Post

Planning for: Changes in Accreditation

 Accreditation is rapidly changing, creating new challenges and opportunities for colleges and universities. We interviewed Lynn Priddy, executive advisor and provost emeritus at National American University, to discuss these challenges and opportunities and how institutions can prepare.
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Collection: Employing Accreditation to Strengthen Planning and Drive Improvement

 Accreditation holds far more potential for an organization's strategic and academic planning than most colleges and universities realize. This collection of SCUP resources includes an introduction to accreditation along with examples of how institutions intentionally employ accreditation at multiple levels to strengthen planning and drive improvement.
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Conferences, Courses, and Workshops of Interest

Conference

SCUP 2024 Annual Conference

 July 21, 2024 - July 23, 2024
Philadelphia, PA
Conference

SCUP 2025 Annual Conference

 July 13, 2025 - July 15, 2025
Honolulu, HI
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