NASAD STANDARDS REVIEW

Last Updated: October 23, 2009

NASAD conducts reviews of its standards for institutional membership in two formats: comprehensive reviews and specific reviews.

Comprehensive reviews consider the standards as a whole or a particular set of standards (e.g. graduate, undergraduate, non-degree-granting, operational). Specific reviews consider particular portions or elements of the standards, or new standards.

Status reports regarding comprehensive and specific standards review efforts are provided below, along with links to any texts available for comment.

PLEASE NOTE     Until any proposed changes have been approved by an affirmative vote of institutional     representatives to NASAD, the official standards in effect are those published in the     latest edition of the NASAD Handbook and any current Handbook Addenda.     Unless specifically stated otherwise, this portion of the NASAD Web site contains only     texts associated with standards reviews or proposals for changes. These texts are     not to be used in the NASAD accreditation process.

All draft proposals will be posted here as they are approved for public comment. Indications will be provided for each proposal regarding the type of review, the dates of comment periods, and whether the proposal is scheduled for hearings or for a final vote by the NASAD membership.

Representatives of member institutions and other interested parties, including students, are cordially invited to read and comment on standards drafts. Those wishing to comment are urged to read the introductory material to each draft standards text. If you have a comment, please share it during the present comment period. Do not wait for a later draft. Comment forwarding instructions are provided on each draft text.

Although NASAD will not be able to acknowledge every comment individually, the Association is grateful to those making specific suggestions. You need not comment if you think a text is satisfactory.

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Most hyperlinked review documents listed within these pages are available
both in Microsoft Word* format or as Adobe Acrobat PDF files, and may be
downloaded by clicking on your choice as indicated. To view or print PDF
files, you will need to have or install Adobe Acrobat Reader.

*NOTE: The NASAD Handbook is not available in MS Word format.

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SPECIFIC STANDARDS REVIEWS

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CONTACTS

If you need assistance or have a concern regarding any aspect of the standards review, please contact Matt Sullenbrand (msullenbrand@arts-accredit.org) at the NASAD National Office.

Kindly report any website problems or broken links to Willa Shaffer: wshaffer@arts-accredit.org.

Thank you.