Resources

Resources

ASPA Governance Documents:

ASPA Bylaws - html (PDF Document)
ASPA Core Values - Spring 2008 - html (PDF Document)
ASPA Member Code of Good Practice - html (PDF Document)

Other ASPA Documents:

ASPA Code of Good Practice for a National Service/Oversight Organization
ASPA Principles for Reviewing Policy and Legislative Proposals Regarding Institutional and Specialized Accreditation (Endorsed by members and adopted by ASPA Board, April 4, 2005.)
Statements for Accrediting Bodies: 1) Vision Statement; 2) Values; and 3) Values & Philosophy (Click below to download individual sections.)
A Message to Our Publics
Accreditation Acronyms (In progress - click HERE to email additions or corrections!)
Accreditation in the United States
ASPA Amicus Curiae Brief
Collaborative Evaluations by Regional and Specialized Accrediting Agencies
Note: In 2002, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education updated the 1997 Collaborative Evaluations ... Guidelines and Procedures based on Middle States' experience with collaborative reviews. The new document was also endorsed by ASPA in 2002 and recommended for use by accreditors who might be interested in working jointly with Middle States. The 2002 document is available for purchase from Middle States at: www.msache.org. Go to "Publications" and then "Guidelines for Improvement."

Authored by Others:

Lucien "Skip" Capone III, University Counsel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro - these papers are posted with permission of the author.
- A Guidebook to Due Process for Accreditors (PDF) by Lucien Capone III, University Counsel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Posted with permission by the author, January 2007.
- WHAT, ME WORRY? An Overview of Legal Concerns for Accreditors
  September 8, 2003 – ASPA Fall 2003 Meeting
- Legal Aspects of Electronic Record Retention: Playing Safe in an Era of New Options April 4, 2005 - ASPA Spring 2005 Meeting
Protecting Residency Programs' ACGME Compliance Documents from Disclosure Under State Public Records Acts" (PDF) by Douglas Carlson, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago (ACGME Counsel) (November 2004) The author and the copyright owner have given ASPA permission to post this article about Graduate Medical Accreditation records.
Reauthorization: America's Conversation with Its Postsecondary Schools (Summary) by Bernard Fryshman, Executive Vice President, Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools - Feb. 10, 2004 - posted with permission of the author. ((Full Paper - 70 pages - see table of contents))
Consistency in Accrediting Team Recommendations by Katy E. Marre, Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio (April 2003)
Autonomy and Integrity in the Era of Collaboration and Cooperation by Steve Crow (September 2002)
Success With Respect to Student Achievement by Karen W. Kershenstein (June 2002)
Are Universities "Overrun" by Accreditors? A Look at the Data
(Dr. David J. Werner - The CHEA Chronical - October 2001, Volume 4, Number 2)
Recognition Chronology Compiled by Cynthia A. Davenport