After months of gathering documents and wrangling Hillsdale College’s identity into online essay forms, Hillsdale College faculty and staff reaped their reward: The Higher Learning Commission, a private regional accreditor, reaffirmed the college’s accreditation for 10 years in May 2018. The reaccreditation upholds Hillsdale’s status as a “legitimate institution whose education is serious and noteworthy,”...
Now the wait begins. Five accreditors from the Higher Learning Commission visited campus Monday through Wednesday, as a part of the college’s comprehensive evaluation for reaccreditation. The college will receive the results in the next few weeks. Accreditation is a certification from a regional group of member colleges, such as the HLC, that says an...
It is worse than it was, but not bad yet. That seemed to be administrators’ conclusion regarding recent changes made by the Higher Learning Commission to its accreditation process. In response to Department of Education mandates and in a culture of standardized tests and quantifiable results, the HLC has abandoned self-studies — essentially books written...
Preliminary results from a standardized test evaluating graduating seniors placed Hillsdale College’s class of 2016 in the 99th percentile compared to average scores from 294 institutions nationwide. The score represented 49 of the target 50 Hillsdale seniors taking the test. This Proficiency Profile is akin to a college-level SAT, with subjects such as critical thinking,...