Accreditation

Accreditation is a cooperative system of certification and quality assurance wherein communities of academics establish criteria (or standards) which define accepted practice and then hold one another accountable to the criteria. Institutions are accredited as a whole by regional accrediting agencies. Some individual academic programs can be accredited through national organizations. Accrediting agencies are not governmental entities, but rather voluntary, cooperative associations of schools and scholars. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation's Web site offers a more in-depth introduction to accreditation.

Accreditation provides the prestige of national recognition and the assurance of quality for students, parents, and other members of the community. The institution benefits as well from the self-reflection, self-improvement, and peer counsel that are part of the accreditation process.

The federal government enters the accreditation picture not through direct oversight, but through financial aid. To ensure that federal financial aid is well spent, the U.S. Department of Education provides financial aid only to students of accredited institutions. The USDOE thus recognizes and validates the work of the regional accrediting agencies in the peer review process, but also bears influence on accrediting agencies and accredited institutions through financial aid regulations.

Indiana Wesleyan University is accredited as a whole by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, one of the oldest accrediting agencies, founded in 1895. Six of our academic programs are nationally accredited by appropriate accrediting bodies.

In addition to accreditations, Indiana Wesleyan University is affiliated with a number of communities and associations that provide connections for cooperation and accountability.

Institutional Accreditation

INSTITUTIONAL SELF-STUDY

As part of the comprehensive review of the institution by the Higher Learning Commission in the spring of 2010 that resulted in continued accreditation through 2020, Indiana Wesleyan University prepared an Institutional Report of self-study. The Institutional Report and related documents are available at the links below.

• IWU HLC IR 2010 (low-resolution imagery, 6 MB)
• IWU HLC IR 2010 (high-resolution imagery, 85 MB)
• IWU IR Executive Summary
• IWU HLC IR Appendices 2010

Programmatic Accreditations

Institutional Affiliations

Other Approvals and Affiliations

Many of the programs and academic divisions of Indiana Wesleyan University maintain other discipline-specific approvals and affiliations.

Discipline-Specific Approvals

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance (AAHPERD)
American Association for Health Education (AAHE)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI)
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
Indiana Department of Education (Teacher Education)
Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (Athletic Training & Nursing)
Indiana State Board of Nursing (Nursing)
National Association for Sport & Physical Education (NASPE)
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Institutional And Departmental Affiliations

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS)
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
American Chemical Society – Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP)
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
American College Theatre Festival (ACTF)
American Nurses Credentialing Center (AACC)
American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
Broadcast Education Association (BEA)
Central States Communication Association (CSCA)
Christian Society for Kinesiology & Leisure Studies (CSKLS)
Coalition of Advanced Practice Nurses in Indiana (CAPNI)
College Media Advisers/Associated Collegiate Press (CMA/ACP)
Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC)
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association (GLATA)
Hoosier State Press Association (HSPA)
Indiana Alliance for Health Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance (IAHPERD)
Indiana Association for Institutional Research (INAIR)
Indiana Association of Addiction Professionals (IAAP)
Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (IACTE)
Indiana Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (IACRAO)
Indiana Collegiate Press Association (ICPA)
Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (Athletic Training & Nursing)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)
Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI)
Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
National Association of Christian Social Workers (NACSW)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
National Communication Association (NCA)
National Council for Social Studies (NCSS)
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC)
National League of Nursing (NLN)
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF)
National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA)
Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF)
Nurses Christian Fellowship International (NCFI)
Phi Alpha Theta (national history honor society)
Pi Gamma Mu (national social science honor society)
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
Sigma Theta Tau (nursing honor society)
Sigma Zeta (science honor society)
Society of Actuaries (SOA)