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North Central Association Accreditation
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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation
The Accreditation Report
The North Central Association assigned a team
to conduct a Comprehensive Evaluation Visit February 8-11, 2004.
While on campus, the Evaluation
Team reviewed many documents and interviewed many members of the
College community. The team’s report, provided here in its
entirety, is divided into two parts:
- an Assurance
Section that reviews Earlham’s
accomplishment of the five criteria for accreditation and
- an Advancement
Section that offers overall observations,
reviews procedures and various areas of the college, and encourages
future action.
In general, the Evaluation Team’s 2004 accreditation report
is very complimentary of Earlham, stating that the College “meets
the General Institutional Requirements and satisfies all five
criteria for accreditation. We believe that Earlham College is
doing an excellent
job in fulfilling its mission and in educating its students” (Assurance
Section, page 9). The report commends the scholarship and dedication
of the faculty, the engagement of the students, the breadth of
academic programming, the beauty of the campus and the fulfillment
of the
College’s mission through consensus-based governance, and
a wealth of international study and service learning opportunities.
The Evaluation Team concurred with future institutional priorities
that Earlham had already identified through various planning
processes. These priorities include increasing our financial
base to sustain
the diversity that is a hallmark of our curriculum and approach
to a liberal arts education, and re-evaluating the ambitiousness
of
our curriculum in light of the pressure it exerts on our human
and financial resources.
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