Click here for the full Standards for Accreditation adopted by CIHE-NEASC in 2005.

Summary of each standard:  

Standard 1- Mission and Purposes: This chapter describes the College’s mission and shows how it gives direction to the College’s activities and provides a basis for the assessment and enhancement of the institution’s effectiveness.

Standard 2- Planning and Evaluation: This chapter describes how the College plans and evaluates its needs to accomplish and improve the achievement of its mission and purposes.  

Standard 3- Organization and Governance: This chapter describes the organizational design and governance structure of the College and shows how it creates and sustains an environment that encourages teaching, learning, service, scholarship, as well as research and creative activity. 

Standard 4- Academic Program: This chapter describes how institution works systematically and effectively to plan, provide, oversee, evaluate, improve, and assure the academic quality and integrity of its academic programs and the credits and degrees awarded. The College shows how it develops the systematic means to understand how and what students are learning and to use the evidence obtained to improve the academic program.

Standard 5- Faculty: This chapter shows that the College has a faculty well suited to the fulfillment of the College’s mission and provides faculty with the resources to do their jobs well.

Standard 6- Students: This chapter addresses admission, retention and graduation efforts, as well as all student services.  The College shows how it provides an environment that fosters the intellectual and personal development of its students, and more specifically how it recruits, admits, enrolls, and endeavors to ensure the success of its students, offering the resources and services that provide them the opportunity to achieve their academic goals.

Standard 7- Library and Other Information Resources: This chapter demonstrates that the College provides sufficient and appropriate information resources and services and instructional and information technology for the students to achieve their academic goals. 

Standard 8- Physical and Technological Resources: This chapter describes how the College provides sufficient and appropriate physical and technological resources necessary for the achievement of its purposes. 

Standard 9- Financial Resources:  In this chapter the College demonstrates, through verifiable internal and external factors, its financial capacity to graduate its entering class.  The College shows that it administers its financial resources with integrity.

Standard 10- Public Disclosure: This chapter discusses how the College presents itself to students, prospective students, and other members of the interested public. The College shows that it provides information that is complete, accurate, accessible, clear and sufficient for intended audiences to make informed decisions.

Standard 11- Integrity: This final chapter shows how the College subscribes to and advocates high ethical standards in the management of its affairs and in all of its dealings with students, faculty, staff, its governing board, external agencies and organizations, and the general public.