{"id":311,"date":"2017-08-30T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfstudy.spaces.wooster.edu\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2021-09-06T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:50:54","slug":"what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/2017-assurance-review\/what-comes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What comes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>What Comes Next?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We design and undertake a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlcommission.org\/Accreditation\/quality-initiative.html\">Quality Initiative project<\/a>. HLC peer reviewers approve an initial project proposal, as well as a report on the outcomes of the project.\u00a0 The project occurs any time within years five to nine of the 10 year continuing accreditation cycle, though it is probably best that the project occur during years six and seven so that a report on the project can be completed and submitted to HLC and the outcomes from the project incorporated in the evidence for the 2022-23 \u201cAssurance Review\u201d (aka: self-study).<\/p>\n<h4>What is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlcommission.org\/Accreditation\/quality-initiative.html\">Quality Initiative Project<\/a>?<\/h4>\n<p>The Quality Initiative (QI) should suit the institution\u2019s present concerns or aspirations. It can be something we are already pursuing (for example, an assessment-related initiative) or a new project.\u00a0 The HLC\u2019s criteria for QI projects are that the project: \u00a0has the potential for \u201csignificant\u201d impact on an institution and its academic quality, aligns with the institution\u2019s mission, is connected with the institution\u2019s planning processes, is significant and relevant at the time, and that the institution pursues the QI with \u201cgenuine effort.\u201d\u00a0 Taking risks with their projects is affirmed by the fact that QI falls entirely outside the Assurance Process, so it is perfectly acceptable for the initiative to fail provided the institution learns from the failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Comes Next? We design and undertake a Quality Initiative project. HLC peer reviewers approve an initial project proposal, as well as a report on the outcomes of the project.\u00a0 The project occurs any time within years five to nine of the 10 year continuing accreditation cycle, though it is probably best that the project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"parent":295,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/629"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/hlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}