To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Richard Herman" <chancellor@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Campus Reaccreditation

Dear Campus Community,

I write to you today to inform you of an upcoming reaccreditation visit to 
campus by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central 
Association.  Accreditation is a voluntary process of critical self-
analysis and internal and external review that Illinois undergoes every 10 
years.  We have been accredited by the Commission since 1913.  
Institutional accreditation evaluates an entire institution and accredits 
it as a whole.

A review team will visit our campus from October 11-14, 2009.  As members 
of our campus community, you will have an opportunity to participate in 
this process at one of several open forums that will be publicized as the 
review dates approach.  In anticipation of this review, we have produced a 
self-study that focuses on the strengths of our outstanding campus and 
identifies opportunities for growth in the future.  The self-study was 
recently finalized and will be distributed to deans, directors, and other 
senior campus leaders in the days to come.

We have also created a website (http://www.reaccreditation.illinois.edu/) 
as a resource for the review team as well as for our campus.  The website 
contains several links and supporting documents referred to in the self-
study and also contains a viewable version of the self-study.  We look 
forward to this visit and encourage you to become an active part of the 
process.

Very truly yours,

Richard Herman
Chancellor      

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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