CHEA Recognition Standards
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation is an invaluable resource for a variety of individuals, students, organizations, government agencies, education administrators and businesses. The CHEA, in addition to a variety of activities and duties, primarily helps set and maintain the standards of higher education at academic institutions like colleges and universities.
Academic organizations that wish to become accrediting agencies endorsed by the CHEA must meet the CHEA Recognition Standards:
• Advance academic quality. Accreditors have a clear description of academic quality and clear expectations that the institutions or programs they accredit have processes to determine whether quality standards are being met.
• Demonstrate accountability. Accreditors have standards that call for institutions and programs to provide consistent, reliable information about academic quality and student achievement to foster continuing public confidence and investment.
• Encourage, where appropriate, self scrutiny and planning for change and needed improvement. Accreditors encourage self scrutiny for change and needed improvement through ongoing self-examination in institutions and programs.
• Employ appropriate and fair procedures in decision making. Accreditors maintain appropriate and fair organizational policies and procedures that include effective checks and balances.
• Demonstrate ongoing review of accreditation practice. Accreditors undertake self scrutiny of their accrediting activities.
• Possess sufficient resources. Accreditors have and maintain predictable and stable resources.
Referenced Source(s): CHEA.org
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