Dear Campus Community, 

We are excited about the upcoming Mid-Cycle Accreditation visit this week on Thursday, April 18th and Friday, April 19th.  It is our opportunity to tell Shoreline’s story and highlight the excellent planning and assessment work that we all have been undertaking.  

Four peer evaluators from community colleges out-of-state will be on site, in addition to our liaison with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, our institutional accrediting body.   Thanks ahead of time to the 70 faculty, staff, and administrators who will be interviewed by the evaluators; interviews will take place primarily in the 1000/Admin building.   One evaluator will be assessing our library resources in the 4000/Library building from 2-2:50 pm on Thursday and the rest of our campus facilities from 3-3:50 pm that same day.  That same evaluator will assess our Dental Hygiene clinic site at our UW-Seattle location on Friday morning.  

The 2-day visit will end on Friday with a session open to campus from 3:30-3:50 pm in the Boardroom/room 1010M (in person only) in which evaluators will tell the campus what to expect next.  Please note that the evaluators will not be able to tell us at that time if our accreditation warning will be lifted and will not be taking questions from the campus. They will report the strengths and weaknesses they observed to the NWCCU Board of Commissioners, which typically convenes in June.  Hope to see you there! 

Sincerely, 

Jack Kahn, President & Ann Garnsey-Harter, Associate Vice President of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation Liaison Officer