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  General Policy B – 8
Dual Accreditation and Institutional Description
Any institution seeking or holding accreditation from more than one institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the United States Department of Education must describe itself in identical terms to each recognized institutional accrediting body with regard to purpose, governance, programs, degrees, diplomas, certificates, personnel, finances, and constituents, and must keep each accrediting body apprised of any change in its status with one or another accrediting body.
In accordance with 34 CFR 602.28(b), if the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities knows, or has reasonable cause to know that an institution it accredits or preaccredits is the subject of:
1)
a pending or final action brought by a State agency to suspend, revoke, withdraw, or terminate the institution’s legal authority to provide postsecondary education in the State;
2)
a decision by a recognized accrediting agency to deny accreditation or preaccreditation;
3)
a pending or final action brought by a recognized accrediting agency to suspend, revoke, withdraw, or terminate the institution’s accreditation or preaccreditation; or
4)
Probation or an equivalent status imposed by a recognized accrediting agency,
the Commission will not grant initial or renewed accreditation or preaccreditation to the institution unless a review of the institution’s accreditation or preaccreditation determines that it is in compliance with the Commission’s accreditation and preaccreditation criteria. If, following that review, the Commission acts to grant initial or renewed accreditation or preaccreditation to the institution, the Commission provides the Secretary, within 30 days of its action, a thorough and reasonable explanation, consistent with its standards, why the action of the other accrediting agency does not preclude the Commission’s action to grant initial or renewed accredited or preaccredition to the institution.
Adopted 1974/Revised 1999