Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP)
About AQIP
The Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) is a new re-accreditation process developed by the North Central Association to guide colleges in their efforts to be quality institutions. With AQIP, an institution has the opportunity to demonstrate it meets the Higher Learning Commissions's accreditation standards and expectations through sequences of events that naturally align with those ongoing activities that characterize organizations striving to improve their performance. By sharing both its advancement activities and the results of these actions with AQIP, an institution provides the Higher Learning Commission with the evidence it needs both to make a public quality assurance judgment and to support and to assist the institution in its efforts to excel at achieving the distinctive higher education mission it has set for itself.
AQIP has 5 core processes that play an integral part in the re-accreditation of MATC - Action Projects, Systems Portfolio, Systems Appraisal, Strategy Forum, and the reaffirmation of accreditation, which enables MATC to demonstrate its ongoing requirements of the Commission's criteria for accreditation.
Institutions must maintain and share three or four Action Project Updates annually to the HLC on the progress or completion of each Project. Action Projects are based on new opportunities or target systems and processes that have served it poorly in the past. The Project must make a serious and visible difference to performance, embody challenging but attainable goals, stretch the organization to learn and to excel in new ways, and focus on both efficiency and benefits to students and other stakeholders. AQIP provides written feedback on these reports.
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