WASC Resources

WASC Policies

• Contracts with Unaccredited Organizations Policy
• Credit for Experiential Learning Policy
• Credit Hour Policy
• Distance Education Technology Mediated Instruction Policy
• Diversity Statement
• Dual Degrees Policy
• Joint Degrees Policy
• Overseas Educational Programs for Non-US Nationals Policy
• Study Abroad Policy
• Substantive Change Policy
• Transfer of Credit Policy
• Situating WASC Accreditation in the 21st Century: Redesign for 2012 and Beyond

WASC Articles

• Community College Considerations in WASC Accreditation - Brice Harris
• Fresh Approaches to Accreditation - Arthur Levine
• Restructuring Accreditation - Kevin Carey
• The New Ecology of Higher Education - Peter Ewell
• WASC as Cultural Leader - Graham Leicester and Maureen O'Hara
• What Can WASC Do To Increase Faculty Engagement - Pat Hutchings

WASC Brief

• Notes from the CPR Site Visit, September 2010
  Pepperdine has now completed the Capacity and Preparatory Review and will receive the official response from the WASC visiting team and from the WASC Commission in the coming weeks. The final session of the site visit was an exit interview in which Curtis McCray, the chair of the team, delivered a 45-minute overview of their preliminary findings. This WASC Brief is a summary of the preliminary findings delivered during that session. It is important to note that the WASC visiting team only makes recommendations to the WASC Commission. It is the WASC Commission that will be issuing all official findings and conclusions. Therefore, the report on Friday, September 24, and the summary included in this Brief should be regarded as unofficial at this time.
• Reviewing the CPR Report, May 2010
  The purpose of this Brief is to begin preparation for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) site visit, September 22-24, 2010. The WASC visiting team will be meeting with various groups of students, faculty, staff, administrators, and constituents. Regional accreditation is coordinated by WASC through peer review. Pepperdine’s visiting team is a group of faculty, staff, and administrators from a variety of universities.
• An Update on Pepperdine’s Accreditation, March 2010
  This WASC Brief is intended to provide an overview of where we are in the process as well as what will come next in the process. The Brief includes several sections, including an overview of our Institutional Education Objectives formation process, the Capacity and Preparatory Review (CPR) essay themes, and other pertinent information. A key element of the CPR is for the university to write what WASC refers to as “reflective essays” on issues of importance to the institution.
• Preparing for the EER, April 2012
  This WASC Brief relates the WASC accreditation reaffirmation process that culminates with the Educational Effectiveness Review (EER) report and site visit by our WASC visiting team on September 26-28, 2012.