Accreditation Timeline
Steering Committee & Subcommittees Formed
May 2004
Self-Study Draft Commenced
June 2004
Subcommittees Meet & Begin Work
Dr. Robert Schneider from MS visits campus
September 28, 2004
Subcommittees Submit Findings
March 2005
First Draft Self-study Completed
May 2005
Second Draft Self-study Completed
September 2005
Draft submitted to Board of Trustees & President
November 2005
Self-study Submitted
February 2006
Scheduled Team Visit
March 2006
Final Team Report Delivered by Team Chair to Atlantic Cape
April 2006
Atlantic Cape Institutional Response to the Commission and Atlantic Cape Internal Taskforce Developed and Charged to Respond to Team Report
May 2006
Notification of Action by the Commission, Statement of Accreditation Status issued by MSCHE, Remediation Plan begins.
June 2006
Atlantic Cape Internal Taskforce meets with consultants and begins regularly scheduled meetings to develop and institute a Monitoring Report.
July 2006-July 2007
Atlantic Cape Submits Monitoring Report to MSCHE.
August 2007
Commission deploys a Special Team visit of two peer evaluators to Atlantic Cape.
October 2007
Special Team makes Formal Recommendation to Commission post-visit.
Fall of 2007
Commission's Committee on Follow Up Activities and Candidate Institutions reviews Atlantic Cape's Monitoring Report and Special Team Report.
March 2008
The Commission reaffirms Atlantic Cape's accreditation and requests a monitoring report.
mid-March 2008
A monitoring report is submitted to the Commission. The report documents implementation of the Institutional Effectiveness Plan, including the identification of institutional student learning outcomes and the use of assessment results to inform institutional planning and budgeting.
April 2010
The Commission accepts the monitoring report.
June 2010
Atlantic Cape to conduct a Periodic Review Report.
June 2013