2018 Accreditation Process
How UCR's self-study was created
In December of 2016 there was a “kickoff” meeting to brief key leaders from the academic senate, the deans’ offices and other faculty and administrators about the reaffirmation of accreditation process. Following that, the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (and campus Accreditation Liaison Officer) convened an accreditation workgroup to begin assembling a draft of the institutional report. This has already involved meetings and discussions with individuals from across campus and will continue to do so. The workgroup completed a draft near the end of the spring quarter and shared it with the campus in the fall of 2017. The draft was revised in light of that feedback and submitted to WSCUC in January of 2018.
Click the tabs below to access documents related to the 2018 Accreditation Visit.
Download the WASC Campus Brief for information about the entire 2018 Accreditation Visit process. This document will help all members of the campus community as they prepare to meet with the WASC Review Team.
Informational Sessions to prepare for the WASC Visit (all are welcome):
- Thursday, October 11, 3:00-3:45, INTS 1113
- Wednesday, October 17, 11:00-11:45, HUB 269
- Monday, October 22, 4:00-4:45, HUB 269
Open Sessions with the WASC Review Team:
- Staff: October 25, 9:00-9:55 AM, INTS 1113
- Faculty: October 25, 11:00-11:55 AM, INTS 1113
- Students: October 25, 2:00-2:55 PM, INTS 1113
Reaffirmation of Accreditation Visit Schedule:
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Wednesday, October 24 |
Meeting A Room |
Meeting A |
Meeting B |
Meeting B Room |
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7:45-7:55 AM |
HH 1127 |
Orientation Meeting with ALO |
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8:00-8:55 AM |
HH 1127 |
Meeting with UCR Chancellor |
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9:00-9:25 AM |
HH 1127 |
Break or additional orientation |
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9:30-10:25 AM |
HH 0154 |
Chancellor’s Executive Team |
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10:25-10:45 AM |
HH 1127 |
Break |
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10:45-11:40 AM |
HH 0154 |
WSCUC Steering Committee |
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11:40-1:00 PM |
HH 1127 |
Lunch in executive session |
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1:00-1:55 PM |
HH 4148 |
Meeting with Chief Financial Officer |
Senate Leadership |
HH 0154 |
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2:00-2:55 PM |
HH 4148 |
Meeting with Chief Information Officer |
Undergraduate Assessment |
HH 0154 |
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3:00-3:25 PM |
HH 1127 |
Team debriefing in executive session in team room |
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3:30-4:25 PM |
HH 2120 |
Senate Committee on Planning and Budget |
Graduate Assessment |
HH 0154 |
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4:30-5:25 PM |
HH 4148 |
Meeting with Provost/EVC |
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Thursday, October 25 |
Meeting A Room |
Meeting A |
Meeting B |
Meeting B Room |
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8:00-8:55 AM |
HH 4148 |
Diversity |
Institutional Research |
HH 2120 |
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9:00-9:55 AM |
INTS 1113 |
Staff Open Meeting |
GE/Core Competencies Assessment |
HH 4148 |
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10:00-10:55 AM |
HH 1127 |
Team debriefing in executive session in team room OR hold for scheduling |
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11:00-11:55 AM |
HH 0154 |
College Faculty Executive Committee Chairs or Vice Chairs |
Faculty Open Meeting |
INTS 1113 |
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Noon-12:50 PM |
HH 1127 |
Lunch in executive session |
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1:00-1:55 PM |
INTS 1109 |
College Deans |
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2:00-2:55 PM |
INTS 1113 |
Open Meeting - Students |
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3:00-3:55 PM |
HH 2120 |
Chief Student Affairs Officer |
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Friday, October 26 |
Meeting A Room |
Meeting A |
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11:00 AM |
INTS |
Pre-Exit Meeting with UCR Chancellor regarding Team Commendations and Recommendations |
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11:30-12:00 PM |
INTS 1113 |
Exit Presentation with UCR Community |
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Name |
Title |
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Richard Cardullo (ALO) |
Director of Honors, Professor of Biology |
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Kenneth Baerenklau |
Associate Provost, Associate Professor of Public Policy |
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Shaun Bowler |
Dean of Graduate Division, Distinguished Professor of Political Science |
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Allison Cantwell |
Associate Vice Chancellor, Institutional Research |
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Anna Finn |
Special Assistant to the Provost |
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Matthew Hull |
Associate Vice Chancellor, Planning and Budget |
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Cynthia K. Larive |
Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor |
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Chinya Ravishankar |
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Education, BCOE, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering |
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Anna Scher |
Consultant, Assistant Director for Assessment and Survey Research, UC Santa Cruz |
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Christine Victorino |
Associate Chancellor |
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Name |
Title |
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Richard Cardullo (ALO) |
Director of Honors, Professor of Biology |
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Gary Coyne (Data Lead) |
Director of Assessment and Evaluation, Undergraduate Education |
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George Haggerty (Writing Lead) |
Distinguished Professor of English |
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Jose Aguilar |
Director, Financial Aid |
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Kenneth Baerenklau |
Associate Provost, Associate Professor of Public Policy |
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Allison Cantwell |
Associate Vice Chancellor, Institutional Research |
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Anna Finn |
Special Assistant to the Provost |
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Nigel Hughes |
Professor of Earth Sciences, Honors Faculty Fellow |
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Matthew Hull |
Associate Vice Chancellor, Planning and Budget |
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Erith Jaffe-Berg |
Professor and Chair, Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production |
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Sang-Hee Lee |
Associate Dean – CHASS, Professor of Anthropology |
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Yan Ma |
Research Analyst, Institutional Research |
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Michael McKibben |
Divisional Dean (Academic Affairs) – CNAS, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences |
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Karthick Ramakrishnan |
Associate Dean and Professor, School of Public Policy |
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Linda Walling |
Graduate Advisor and Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences |
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Georgia Warnke |
Professor of Political Science, and Director, Center for Ideas and Society |
The WASC Review Team requested the following 11 documents by August 2018.
1. Responses to previous commission action letters
2. Evidence of efforts to recruit and retain diverse faculty and staff
3. Assessment infrastructure and processes
4. Explanation of difficulties with graduate assessment
5. Previous General Education and Core Competencies assessments
6. Calculation of Degree Completion Rates
7. Faculty and staff hiring plans
8. Evidence of campus IT support
9. Assessment document for non-academic units
10. Explanation of the new budget model
11. Documentation of multi-year campus financial plan
We also provided documents on strategic planning, leadership churn, and cluster hiring.
After reviewing the materials submitted in January 2018, a WASC Review Team outlined six Commendations and fourteen Lines of Inquiry in a videoconference Offsite Review with UCR leadership on April 10, 2018. The Offsite Review Summary of Lines of Inquiry document also outlined eleven additional documents which were submitted on August 15 by a subgroup of the Steering Committee and additional administrators as the work was largely completed during the summer months.