{"id":2823,"date":"2026-01-23T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:59:22","slug":"reaffirmation-of-accreditation-and-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/reaffirmation-of-accreditation-and-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"SPRING 2026 REAFFIRMATION OF ACCREDITATION AND STRATEGIC PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p>  Work continues on MTSU\u2019s reaffirmation of accreditation by our institutional accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning March 23, MTSU will host a team of external reviewers from comparable non-Tennessee SACSCOC institutions. This On-Site Committee Review Team will work to resolve Compliance Certification issues that the University addressed in the Focused Report to be submitted in early February. The team will also confirm MTSU\u2019s compliance with the accreditation standards required by the U.S. Department of Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, the On-Site Reaffirmation Committee will meet with MTSU administrators, faculty, staff, students, and members of the Board of Trustees. At the conclusion of the visit, the committee will present its findings to University leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information about the on-site review will be communicated in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we are now halfway through the first year of MTSU\u2019s new Strategic Plan 2035. See the accompanying graphic for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues on MTSU\u2019s reaffirmation of accreditation by our institutional accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Beginning March 23, MTSU will host a team of external reviewers from comparable non-Tennessee SACSCOC institutions. This On-Site Committee Review Team will work to resolve Compliance Certification issues that the University addressed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}