Welcome to Marygrove College’s Accreditation Web Site.
3/28/07 NEWS FLASH: NCA EXAMINERS RECOMMEND MARYGROVE FOR RE-ACCREDITATION!
Marygrove College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), a commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), the largest of six regional associations, recognized by the United States Secretary of Education and the Committee on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation, whose mission is to establish standards for institutions of higher education and to ensure continuous improvement of programs.
To
maintain its accreditation, every ten years Marygrove College conducts
an intensive self-study following NCA’s criteria. Our last review
was in 1997, which was very successful. For the past two years, work has
been under way for our upcoming review, which is scheduled 
for March 25-28,
2007. For this review, we are required to conduct an intensive self-study
and generate a report for the HLC. The Commission, in turn, will send
a team of evaluators to assess what we have reported. This team will make
their own report to the Commission with their recommendation.
Accreditation is enormously important to our institution for two reasons. First, accreditation is the mark of a quality educational institution. And second, every institution in the United States must be accredited for students to receive federal financial aid such as Pell Grants and Work Study funding. Without accreditation, institutions will not get that funding, and neither will their students.
Five teams have been conducting self-studies corresponding to the five criteria established by NCA. The links you will find on this page will take you to a description of those criteria, a listing of the entire project’s steering committee and members of the various self-study teams, and other information about the process, including the self-study report when it is ready.
Please check back often as this Web site will change frequently as the
project moves forward.