HLC Reaccreditation Timeline
October 2015
President Sanders charges MXC’s Office of
Accreditation to carry out reaffirmation steps and a timeline is presented
October 2015
HLC Assurance Argument Steering Committee and HLC Criterion
Committees established through MXC’s Office of Accreditation & Compliance
(OAC)
November 2015
Criterion and Steering Committees meet
January 2016
MXC relocates to new building and Criterion Committee
meetings resume
February 2016
Criterion Committee Chairs charged with identifying evidence
for the Assurance Argument and uploading to a shared space
March 2016
Professional development for Steering Committee and
subcommittees (i.e., Open pathway, Criterion and Core Components, Elements of
an Assurance Argument, Oakton’s Quality Initiative Update)
March 2016
Steering Committee works with college advancement to develop
a communications plan
March 2016
Identify and structure data sets and documents for the
Evidence File for each of the five Criteria
March 2016
Steering Committee reviews Assurance Argument management
tools
April 2016
Accreditation & Compliance Manager (ALO) and Senior
Leadership attends HLC Annual Conference (Chicago)
April 2016
Subcommittees evaluate the data sets and documents for the
evidence file using the set criteria
April 2016
Steering Committee recommends completing the Assurance
Argument writing and revisiting evidence at a later date
April – July 2016
Working with the subcommittees, the Steering Committee helps
manage any necessary updates to the documents for the Evidence File
August 2016
Office of Accreditation and Compliance forms a Federal
Compliance Committee
August 2016
MXC (HLC) Website Committee established
August-December 2016
Criterion Committees begin writing Assurance Argument;
Steering Committee continues with meetings
September 2016
Accreditation team analyzes evidence needed for Federal
Compliance and Assurance Argument
September 2016
Criterion One Committee presents to college on Mission
Statement
October 2016
Criterion Five Committee presents at college-wide meeting on
shared governance
October 2016- February 2017
Assurance Argument writing sessions held
March 2017
Criterion Chairs submit first written drafts
April 2017
Steering Committee reviews and provides feedback to the
criteria chairs
May 2017
Core Writing team and Historical Committee formed
June-September 2017
Writing/Editing continues with Core Writing Team, Historical
Committee and Steering Committee
June 2017
HLC Steering Committee and the Office of Accreditation &
Compliance engages in evaluation of data, reports and other evidence
August 2017
Office of Accreditation & Compliance conducts HLC
Assurance Argument forum and informational session for faculty
August 2017
Submission of the Quality Initiative Report
September 11-12th, 2017
HLC Campus Evaluation Visit
October 2017
Quality Initiative Report accepted by HLC peer review panel
October 2017
Criteria sessions are held for faculty and staff during
College-wide meeting
October 2017
Steering Committee submits draft of entire Assurance
Argument to President and Office of Accreditation & Compliance (OAC)
October 2017
OAC has an HLC Reaffirmation Informational Table for current
students (main campus)
November 2017
President submits report for review by District Office
November 2017
OAC conducts HLC Assurance Argument mock-site visit meetings
for faculty and staff
December 2017
Finalize Federal Compliance and Assurance Argument
January 2018
Assurance Argument uploaded to HLC assurance system
March 12-13, 2018
Higher Learning Commission’s comprehensive visit to Malcolm
X College (MXC)
