GWAffirm

About the Reaffirmation Process

Every 10 years, GW undergoes a reaffirmation of the University's accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The reaffirmation process includes an intensive self-study and a site visit by a team of evaluators, scheduled for early Spring 2008. The expected timeline of the full process is as follows:

February 2006	Appointment of Self-Study Steering Committee
February-April 2006	Development of Self-Study design Development of charges & research questions for Self-Study Working Groups Recruitment of Self-Study Working Groups Development of documentation roadmap
March 2006	Submission of the preliminary Self-Study design to MSCHE
April 2006	Organizational meetings of Working Groups
April 27, 2006	Visit by MSCHE staff liaison, Robert Schneider
May 2006	Submission of formal Self-Study design to MSCHE
September 2006-May 2007	Self-Study
May-July 2007	Organizing and editing of Self-Study report
August 2007	Posting of the Self-Study report on the GW website for review by the GW community
September 2007	Review of Self-Study report by the GW community Further editing of draft report
October 2007	Preliminary visit by Evaluation Team chair and generalist evaluators
November 2007	Final editing of Self-Study report
December 19, 2007	Preliminary visit by Evaluation Team chair
March 30 - April 2, 2008	Visit by MSCHE Evaluation Team
April-May 2008	GW's Response to Evaluation Team report Reaffirmation of Accreditation