Timeline

Path to Re-Accreditation

When	What
Late Summer 2024	Provost reengages Steering Committee, confirms willingness to participate. Reach out to Team Leads and do the same; identify subs as needed.
August 2024	Community messaging around Self-Study redux (both Town Hall/Retreat and Provost’s Forum); we will reconfirm Standard Leads and Teams this fall and pick up the work in earnest Spring 2025. We expect teams to be smaller and the work to be streamlined in light of curriculum redesign and transformation.
Fall 2024	Convene Steering Committee, finalize Standard Leads, and determine streamlined role for Teams; send any Steering Committee members who missed training last year to NECHE workshop in October; review the Self-Study Guide. Build a web page devoted to the NECHE self-study. Create evidence repository and continue assembling data; update working Canvas shell with finalized guidelines, timelines, and milestones for the process. Communicate with NECHE re: how to best frame Self-Study narrative given the other work that is happening across the college.
October 2024	Provost reintroduces Board of Trustees (BOT) to the self-study plan and timeline. (See the Standards Preamble.)
October 2024	Invite a Commission staff member to come to campus to meet with the Steering Committee and Standards Teams (at least 18 months before the site visit).
November 2024	Announce Team Leads and solicit volunteers for teams at Staff Council and Faculty Senate.
December 2024	Finalize Standard Teams
January 2025	Provide Leads with training and clarity around expectations and milestones so they are ready to complete spring work.
Spring 2025	Standard Teams examine evidence, identify gaps, and write “messy” bullets for Description and Appraisal; based on feedback from teams and writers, IR team continues collecting evidence for description and appraisal. Establish a budget in the President’s Office for FY 2026 that accounts for site visit, writers, proofreaders, printing, etc.
Summer 2025	Lead Writers begin drafting the Description and Appraisal for all of the Standards.
August 2025	Remind the community of what is happening with the self-study process at the Town Hall; share drafts of Description and Appraisal with Standards Teams for feedback.
Fall 2025	Writers work with Standards Teams to gather missing information, clarification, etc. Complete next draft of Description and Appraisal. Steering Committee coordinates campus-wide communications. NECHE will ask us to confirm dates for the team visit in fall 2026.
Late Fall 2025	Share the latest draft of Description and Appraisal with the College community to solicit feedback. The Steering Committee assesses feedback and works with IR to gather additional needed evidence and writers to re-draft. Description and Appraisal shared with BOT.
December 2025	Cabinet members and their direct reports review Description and Appraisal and begin to draft Projections for Standards in their respective areas.
January 2026	BOT conversation about possible projections.
February 2026	Lead writers draft Projections iteratively with Cabinet Liaisons and continue to fill in any gaps in Appraisal.
March 2026	Post a public (internal) draft for feedback from the College community; Lead Writers and Steering Committee incorporate feedback and give draft a close read; proofreader external to the Committee copy edits the draft.
March 2026	Invite team chair for preliminary visit to assess self-study process and work out arrangements for Site Visit; chair will meet with faculty, students and staff in addition to President, Provost, and Steering Committee.
April 2026	Send draft to NECHE for review and feedback; post draft for reading by College Community.
Summer 2026	Incorporate feedback from NECHE; Finalize self-study documents and workroom materials; prepare for team visit (the President’s Office coordinates this); final proofing, compiling, and printing of Self-study.
August 2026	Ship final draft of self-study to NECHE (ten weeks before the team visit).
September 2026	Ship documents to visiting team; Update community on self-study process at Town Hall and prepare community for team visit; Student communication?
October 2026	Site Visit to Champlain College
November 2026	President and visiting team chair meet with the Commission to review the comprehensive evaluation.