What happens to the teams report when the site visit is over?
As an institution we will need to look carefully at the report, both for validation of the things that we are doing well and for advice about ways we can improve what we are doing. Particular issues may be referred to appropriate campus committees or offices for action. In Fall 2006 an Archiving Task Force was convened to examine ways the university can ensure that the next HLC self-study has continuous, up-to-date, and useful evidence material already on hand. The university may even want to consider establishing mechanisms that will bring all of its accreditation, program review, assessment, and planning processes together in such a way as to avoid duplication of processes that are mutually informed and could be more collaboratively managed.
