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The Accreditation Report

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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.
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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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