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Middle States

Updates

Below find important communications shared with the Â鶹ֱ²¥ community, as well as updates about Middle States visits, and key milestones.

2024

Executive Chairs finalized and attended Self-Study Institute.

2025

The Evidence Inventory Team worked with each working group to build a comprehensive inventory of evidence relevant to each Standard. Each working group will spend 2025–2026 evaluating their standard and incorporating their findings for their final report.

  • February 6
    Steering Committee kick-off meeting.
  • February 7
    Working groups kick-off meeting.
  • April 23
    Michael Bowden, Vice President for Institutional Field Relations at MSCHE visited campus to discuss our self-study design, engage with Senior Leadership, our Board of Trustees, Steering Committee as well as an open forum attended by students, faculty and staff. .
  • June
    approved.
  • November
    Presentation to joint staff council.
  • November 7
    Presentation to Westchester faculty council.
  • December 10
    Presentation to NYC faculty council.
  • December 10–12
    Steering Committee members attend the MSCHE Annual Meeting.
  • December 15
    Working group chairs submit interim chapter reports.
  • December 17
    Working group chairs share initial feedback with President Krislov.

2026

Working groups continue to collect evidence and write their chapters. Visiting Team Chair is selected and will visit Â鶹ֱ²¥ in Fall 2026

  • April 15
    Working groups submit first draft of their chapters.
  • April 27
    University-wide Town Hall to share process with the university community.
  • Summer
    Working groups fine tune chapters and identify additional evidence to support their writing.
  • October
    Final Draft complete with Evidence links to share with Visiting Chair.
  • October 27
    Visiting Chair, Daria T. LaTorre, JD, from Duquesne University, visits Â鶹ֱ²¥ to discuss the draft and provide feedback.
  • Fall 2026
    The Self Study Draft is shared with the University Community for feedback.
  • December 1
    Final report and evidence collected for upload to MSCHE securre portal.

2027

The final report is written and shared with Middle States. The MSCHE Peer Evaluation Team will visit campus and make their recommendations to MSCHE. MSCHE makes decision on accreditation at their Spring 2027 meeting.

  • January 4
    Ten weeks before the visit, the completed report and all evidence must be uploaded to the MSCHE secure portal.
  • Winter 2027
  • Steering Committee finalizes preparation fort he Self-Study evaluation visit.
  • March 15-18
    MSCHE Peer Evaluation Team visits Â鶹ֱ²¥.
  • Post Visit
    • Peer Evaluation Team Chair sends the College a written draft of the Self-Study Evaluation Team Report within 7 calendar days of the On-Site Evaluation visit for the correction of any factual errors.
    • Within 7 calendar days of receipt of the draft report, College returns corrected draft to the Team Chair.
    • Within 5 calendar days of receipt of the corrected draft, the Chair uploads final Self-Study Report to the MSCHE portal.
    • Within 7 calendar days of the final Self-Study Report being uploaded, the College prepares the formal institutional response to the team and uploads to secure MSCHE portal.
    • Within 5 calendar days of the institutional response being uploaded, the Chair uploads a confidential brief to the secure MSCHE portal.
  • Spring 2027
    • The Middle States Commission on Higher Education takes an accreditation action at the meeting of the Committee on Evaluation Reports.
    • The Commission informs the College of the accreditation action no later than 30 days after it takes an action.