Middle States Open Forum: This Afternoon at the ARCH |
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March 25, 2014, Volume 60, No. 27 |
Penn is nearing the final stages of the decennial reaccreditation review by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. A document review was completed last fall to assess Penn’s compliance (across the University including graduate and undergraduate education) with Middle States’ 14 standards for accreditation. Penn received notification from Middle States that the University successfully completed that phase of the review.
The Middle State’s visiting team is on campus to complete an assessment of the accreditation standards covered by Penn’s Self-Study (Almanac November 12, 2013) which focused on undergraduate education through the lens of the Penn Compact. The visiting team is hosting an open forum on Tuesday, March 25 with faculty at 3 p.m. and with staff at 4-5 p.m. in The ARCH. The principal topic will be undergraduate education, but the team will also entertain other matters. These meetings are intended to offer a space for faculty and staff to express their views directly to the visiting team. Students will have their own open forum meetings.
The members of the visiting team are:
• Dr. John J. (Jack) DeGoia, President of Georgetown University and Chair of the visiting team
• Dr. W. Kent Fuchs, Provost of Cornell University
• Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Professor of History and former Dean of the College at Princeton University (Dr. Malkiel is an elected Commissioner of MSCHE)
• Ms. Linda Abrams Reimer, Senior Vice President for Student Affairs, The New School.
—Joann Mitchell, Vice President for Institutional Affairs
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