[OPLINLIST] FW: Revised ALA Standards approved

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From: Don Wood [mailto:dwood at ala.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 4:47 PM
To: alacro-l at lists.ala.org
Subject: [alacro-l] Revised ALA Standards approved


The ALA Committee on Accreditation is pleased to announce ALA Council approval of the 2015 Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies http://www.ala.org/accreditedprograms/standards.

Brought forward into the new Standards with greater clarity is the emphasis on planning, assessment, and evaluation to sustain quality. The requirement to demonstrate how the results of evaluation are applied is now a culminating aspect of each of the standards.

The five-plus-year Standards review process, documented at http://www.oa.ala.org/accreditation/, resulted in three drafts issued for comment. The final, approved version reflects suggestions from all sectors of the profession, including, most notably, employers of LIS program graduates, LIS program faculty, students, the ALA Council and Executive Board, and affiliated associations.

Implementation of the 2015 Standards will begin immediately only for those programs not already in the comprehensive review cycle. Specifically,


*        Programs scheduled for a comprehensive review visit in spring 2017 or later will begin reporting to the 2015 Standards beginning with narrative reports due in December 2015. That way, the narrative reports can aid development of the Program Presentation.



*        Programs with comprehensive review visits in spring 2015 through fall 2016 will continue to report to the 2008 Standards until after the accreditation decision is made. A program in this category has the option to use the 2015 Standards upon written notification to the Office.


*        Programs placed on Conditional status under the 2008 Standards will continue to report to the 2008 Standards until after the next accreditation decision.

Please contact the COA secretariat, the Office for Accreditation at accred at ala.org<mailto:accred at ala.org>, if you have any questions.


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