{"id":29,"date":"2019-04-05T14:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:30:18","slug":"neche-standards-and-committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/neche-standards-and-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"NECHE Standards &#038; Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Institutions of higher learning achieve accreditation from NECHE by demonstrating they meet the Commission\u2019s\u00a0<em>Standards for Accreditation<\/em>\u00a0and comply with its policies.\u00a0 The\u00a0<em>Standards for Accreditation<\/em>\u00a0establish criteria for institutional quality; in addition, the Commission adopts policies that elucidate the Standards, relate to their application, and otherwise ensure that the Commission is current with respect to federal requirements and changing circumstances in higher education and public expectation.\u00a0 Moreover, the Commission expects affiliated institutions to work toward improving their quality, increasing their effectiveness, and continually striving toward excellence.\u00a0 Its evaluative processes are designed to encourage such improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the Standards articulates a dimension of institutional quality.\u00a0 In applying the Standards, the Commission assesses and makes a determination about the effectiveness of the institution as a whole.\u00a0 The institution that meets the Standards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has clearly defined purposes appropriate to an institution of higher learning;<\/li>\n<li>has assembled and organized those resources necessary to achieve its purposes;<\/li>\n<li>is achieving its purposes;<\/li>\n<li>has the ability to continue to achieve its purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neche.org\/resources\/standards-for-accreditation\/\">NEASC Standards of Accreditation<\/a>, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutions of higher learning achieve accreditation from NECHE by demonstrating they meet the Commission\u2019s\u00a0Standards for Accreditation\u00a0and comply with its policies.\u00a0 The\u00a0Standards for Accreditation\u00a0establish criteria for institutional quality; in addition, the Commission adopts policies that elucidate the Standards, relate to their application, and otherwise ensure that the Commission is current with respect to federal requirements and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13443,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}