September 31, 2022
The University of Alabama’s reaffirmation of accreditation process with the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) is underway.
Accreditation is a process of internal and external review that includes evaluation against a common set of standards produced and approved by SACSCOC members, i.e., the over 800 higher education institutions in the Southeast.
The decennial reaffirmation review process consists of three primary phases that conclude with the SACSCOC Board of Trustees review in December 2025. Those phases include:
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness began compliance audits in Spring 2022 and will guide the university through the process.
Orientation for UA’s Leadership Team will be conducted at the SACSCOC Annual Meeting, Dec. 3-6, in Atlanta, GA.
The Leadership Team includes President Stuart Bell, Provost Jim Dalton, Vice President for Finance & Operations Matt Fajack, and Assistant Provost Ginger Bishop, who also serves as UA’s Institutional Accreditation Liaison.
For more information on SACSCOC Accreditation, please see the Reaffirmation Webpage.
Every ten years, colleges and universities accredited by SACSCOC must demonstrate their compliance with the standards in the Principles of Accreditation. This process is called reaffirmation of accreditation. It is a process of institutional self-evaluation that culminates in two stages of peer review conducted by senior level faculty and administrators (Peer Evaluators) from other institutions accredited by SACSCOC.
