Timeline for 2023-2024 Comprehensive Evaluation

Fall 2022

September 2022 - December 2022

Begin drafting 2023-2024 assurance argument outline
Create template based on HLC format and institutional themes
Survey evidence sources

Spring 2023

January 2023 - May 2023

Finalize assurance argument outline
Draft argument based on outline for each criterion
Evidence collection and editing begins

Summer 2023

May 2023 - August 2023

Prepare penultimate draft of the assurance argument
Evidence collecting and editing begins

Fall 2023

September 2023 - December 2023

Evidence collecting and editing continues
Make the assurance argument available for comment
Incorporate assurance argument comments
Prepare the final version of assurance argument
Complete federal compliance review

Spring 2024

January 2024

HLC survey of NIU students
Submit the assurance argument report to HLC

February 2024

Assurance system lock date

March 2024

HLC site visit: March 25-26, 2024

2023-2024 Comprehensive Evaluation

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