Accreditation Committee and accreditation decision

Meeting's order of business
NEXT Committee meeting: December 20-21, 2007

Decision process

Decision

Program's acceptance or appeal of the Accreditation Committee's decision

Other roles of the Accreditation Committee

Members

The Accreditation Committee, a committee of TEAC’s board of directors, makes the accreditation decision.

After the panel meeting, the TEAC staff sends the panel’s accreditation report, which contains its accreditation recommendations, to the program’s head, who has two weeks in which to respond in writing to the recommendations in the report. In anticipation of the next meeting of the Accreditation Committee, the president of TEAC collects, reviews, and distributes the appropriate documents from the accreditation process.

At its meeting, the Accreditation Committee reviews the Inquiry Brief or Inquiry Brief Proposal, the final audit report, any reports from consulting reviewers, the staff analysis, the accreditation report, any additional information provided by TEAC's president, and any responses from the program under review. After deliberation, the Accreditation Committee either accepts or rejects by a majority vote the recommendation of the Accreditation Panel.

In the unlikely event that the Accreditation Committee fails to accept the panel’s recommendation, the committee must give written reasons for its own decision to reject the recommendations in the accreditation report and to formulate new ones. The program may appeal the Accreditation Committee’s decision and an Appeals Panel, appointed by the chair of the board of directors, hears the appeal in accordance with TEAC’s policy on appeals.