The university mission statement is central to the self-study. The new requirements also expect much more self-study and evaluation on the part of the individual units. Each department and each college will develop a 3-ring notebook that tells the story of the unit's mission, activities, strengths, challenges, and strategies. Notebooks for colleges and departments will be sent to your office tomorrow with a template of questions for the units to answer and assemble. Whenever possible we will gather information centrally.
Units can update or revise their notebook at any time.
To help the units generate the necessary information in a consistent format, the Accreditation Steering Committee has designed a generic template for the college notebook and a generic template for the department notebook. The outline of the notebook is a guide to organization and is not meant to be procrustean. If some part is not applicable, then simply state so. The college should not duplicate the department notebooks, rather the college notebook will contain details of activities within the college but not within any single department. The college notebooks will also contain summary information.