The NAACLS News

At the April 11, 2013 meeting of the NAACLS Board of Directors, in addition to accreditation and approval awards recommended by the RCAP and PARC, the following items were addressed:

• The CHEA Committee on Recognition recommended that NAACLS be granted recognition by the CHEA Board. The CHEA Board is expected to make its’ decision in late April 2013.
• To ensure that programs outside the United States or its’ territories are sponsored by institutions that meet standards for quality, Standard I.A was amended to include I.A.4 “an Institution recognized by the national government or a regional/national accrediting agency for higher education of the country in which it is located as a post secondary academic institution with degree granting authority (for programs outside the United States)”. Most countries do not utilize a system of regional accreditation or state licensure as does the United States. The Standard change requires foreign-based programs to be recognized by the analogous system used by the country in which the program is located.

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