THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, January 15, 1995 TAG: 9501130212
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 04 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
Tidewater Community College is one of 17 schools selected by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to pilot an alternative approach to self-study requirements for reaccreditation for 1994-96.
TCC joins the University of Virginia, Hampden-Sydney College and community colleges in North and South Carolina and Tennessee in efforts to streamline the task.
Every 10 years, member colleges of SACS must do an institutional self-study to prepare for visits by accreditation teams from other colleges. In the past, this has involved the documentation of five areas of institutional effectiveness, a task that has involved reams of paperwork and hours of work by the college's faculty, staff and administrators.
The new approach will eliminate much of that by assuming that the college is doing its job. It allows TCC to demonstrate compliance with the basic criteria for accreditation but concentrate on some area that will benefit the college's development.
The area selected by TCC is technology. by CNB