General Education Resources

Accreditation

Project Partners with Accreditors on Assessment and Student Achievement
This newsletter from the AAC&U initiative, Greater Expectations, summarizes the outcomes of the Project on Accreditation and Assessment.

Accreditation Criteria for Interdisciplinary Studies in General Education
This report, prepared by a task force of the Association for Integrative Studies and endorsed by the Board of Directors of the Association in February 2000, has developed appropriate criteria of accreditation for interdisciplinary general education. The criteria we offer are advisory. The task force was commissioned by the Association for Integrative Studies, a professional organization for educators in interdisciplinary education nd scholarship, in response to a request from the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). The recommendations may be taken as state-of-the-art counsel that can be published and endorsed by other professional groups.

AALE Accreditation Standards and Criteria
The American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE), a national organization dedicated to strengthening and promoting liberal education through accreditation and research, has adopted revised Accreditation Standards and Criteria that are carefully designed to be appropriate to the nature, goals, and means of liberal education. These revised Standards and Criteria for institutional and program accreditation are now available on the academy's web site. Adoption of these new standards marks the first time substantive evidence of liberal learning has formed a central part in the accreditation requirements of a U.S. Department of Education recognized agency.

AAC&U offers these resources only as possible models of interest and has not submitted each of them to any substantial peer or quality review. If you have questions about any particular resource, please contact the institution sponsoring it directly.